Long March 1934-5
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• Causes
• German military advise encirclement and starve policy - deny resources
• Use pill-boxes
• Manned road blocks
• Supposedly to resist Japanese
• Nature
• Encompassed
• 6,000 Miles (Equivalent to marching from London to Lagos)
• 15 Battles
• 24 Rivers
• Effects
• Brotherhood, Suffering, Selflessness, Determination inculcated into Communist Party members.
• Mao rises
• Exposes urban communists as abandoning successful guerrilla tactics.
• Position weak before
• Voted in as chairman Politburo session
• Zhang Guoato chooses westward route (as it is nearer Russia). Fails, and rejoins Mao. Mao strengthened.
• CCP Survive and grow
• New Strategy
• United Front against Japan almost universally popular
• "Chinese don't fight Chinese"
• Abandon Class warfare

Other Notes in this Category

1. Civil War 1937-1945
2. Civil War 1945-1949
3. Early Nationalist and Communist Activity
4. Long March 1934-5
5. War Against Japan 1937
6. Xian Incident Dec 1936
7. Yanaan 1936-45

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