18/02/14
Level 4 – 3 developed points, linked together, style + standard appropriate
10 mark answers
Structure: 5 paragraphs

Why the CCP won the Civil War?

* Intro – introduce how the civil war was going (background information, a timeline, who was fighting? Who was winning (GMD)), overview on why the CCP won * Main Body (1st developed point) political – both had foreign aid, CCP had a strong leadership, peasants liked the idea of communism, however the GMD lost sight of the three principles (dictatorship, no democracy, very harsh rule) * Main Body (2nd developed point) military – the soldiers felt that they were fighting for a cause (were passionate about it), whilst the GMD had their soldiers unfed and didn’t have a motive to fight this led for soldiers to desert the GMD and move to the CCP, bringing their weapons with them (the biggest suppliers of weapons were the GMD), write about the military tactics (guerrilla and CKS wrong move) * Main Body (3rd developed point) social - CCP had support of the majority: Women’s association: No more foot binding, prostitution, Land reform, When they made mistake, too radical for land reform, they backed down and began to more moderate. * Conclusion has to go back to the question
Compare the two!! GMD & CCP

Why did a Civil war break out in China in 1947? * Intro * Main Body (1st/2nd developed point) (division between GMD and CCP), 1925 – 1945 main points (shanghais massacre, extermination campaigns, long march, war with Japan) * Main Body (2nd developed point) 1945-1946 (end of the Sino-Japanese war, CCP willing to compromise, GMD not) * Conclusion – long term factors + the short term caused the civil war

The Chinese civil war was a power struggle between China’s GMD nationalist party under Chiang Kai Shek ant the CCP communist party under Mao Ze Dong. Although co-existing through forming the united Front (1923) and cooperation in the Sino Japanese War (1937-1945) a final coalition government was impossible, ultimately , the two parties resolved the power struggle through the inevitable Civil War in 1949 after the Japanese War when the CCP had finally announced their victory on October 1st. Historians have argued why the communist had ultimately won the civil war; some recognized only CCP pros and others believed that the victory was based upon GMD.

The CCP effectiveness: Politically the CCP under Mao to majority population and peasants…proposed people’s equality, women’s right…
The communist won the civil war in 1949 for many reasons, although they did not have many things the GMB had, they had enormous support from peasants, (95% of the country), so this mass support, Mao was able to achieve many thing. So from the volunteering peasants and the unity and determination through the civil war. After fighting the Japanese, Mao had a good idea of the power of his People’s liberation Army, he learnt from mistakes and the communist were fresh and confident for the civil war.

The Communist won the civil war in China in 1949 because of support of the peasants, the tactics they used and their alliance with the Soviet Union. The weakness of the Nationalist Party helped the Communist Party win peasant support. These weaknesses include inflation, loss of support from United States, the inability to destroy the Communist Party, and the failure to eliminate the Japanese.

The Communist won the Civil war because of support of the peasants, the tactics they used and also their alliance with the Soviet Union. On top of that, the weakness of the Nationalist plays an important part in earning the peasant support for the communist. The weaknesses of the Nationalist includes: Inflation, loss of support from USA, unable to destroy the CCP and failure to eliminate the Japanese.Firstly, the communist were well liked by the peasants.

The communist had 8 Rules which acted as their code of conduct to earn the support from the peasants. One of the points includes treating the peasants as individuals and be polite to them.

The Chinese Civil War, which lasted from 1927 to 1949, was a civil war in China which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) overthrew the Guomindang (GMD) As the CCP had always been inferior to the GMD in many aspects, many were shocked and startled by the Communist’s victory; although numerous factors show that the Communist’s victory was almost inevitable.

The factors that lead to the Communists victory, which includes ideology, economic, political, social, military, foreign issues, and personalities of the leaders.One of the major advantages of the CCP can be seen in their social aspects and the support of peasants, which were the vast majority of people. They owned limited amount of land, had high rents, low productivity, were in dept and many lived on the edge of starvation. In addition, having peasant support for the CCP can supply with food resources. Therefore, Mao understood the first goal he had to achieve was the support from peasants.

First, he set up peasant unions of Hunan from 1925-27, then in 1838-45 when Chiang had their attention focused on the Japanese Invasion, Mao and the CCP went to the rural areas, where the peasants were grateful for the way the soldiers behaved and helped the people. Then, the political leaders confiscated land from the landowners and redistributed it to landless people; lastly, they were given rights to vote for village leaders. By doing all this, the once enslaved and exploited people of china gained faith and freedom established the myth that only the ‘Red Army’ was the true protector of China.

In contrast, the GMD had no strong support from the peasants; and most of them felt no connection to the government. The GMD had no party organization helping the struggling provinces, GMD were better equipped….but the communist took advantage of the mass support