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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or how is known nowadays the Communist Party of China (CPC), was born on 1920s during the Fourth May Movement. TheCommunist and anarchist ideas attracted the attention of several Chinese intellectuals. The party lost importance during the three decades following; on 1949, the great leader of the Communists, Mao Zedong,defeated the Kuomintang (KMT) and establish the People’s Republic of China.
During the 1920s and the 1930s, the Kuomintang, the nationalist party, was the ruler party of China. Sun Yat-Sen was theleader of the Chinese Republic; he formed the United Front with soviet representatives. They agreed to give aid and advice to the KMT in return for the admission of CCP members into the KMT. As aresult of this agreement, Mao was inducted into the KMT.
Between 1927 and 1933, communists, with Mao’s aid, establish the Chinese Soviet republic in the hills of Jiangxi. The nationalists startedattacked them to eliminate the last Communist force in the region. The commander Zhu De was in charge of the army fighting the KMT armies sent against them. After several defeats, Mao and thecommunists were forced to flee in what became known as the Long March; it lasted from 1934 to 1935.
Mao’s influence started to skyrocket after the Long March. He consolidated his power and getadvantage of the Sino Japanese war to get into the power. The fire that lit the fuse occurred after the eight-year war: the Chinese civil war (1945-1949). The combat finished with Mao controlling themainland China, and the KMT retreating offshore to Taiwan. This event allowed the creation of the People’s Republic of China; Mao became the leader of the PRC and also the CCP.
In conclusion, thecreation of the PRC gave the chance Mao to become the sole leader of China. He became allied with the Soviet Union, to receive aid and to form a government like the one in the Soviet Union. On 1958, Mao...
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