"Chiang Kai Shek and the KMT had more money, weapons and outside help than Mao Zedong and the Communists, yet the Communists won the Civil War."Explain why it was possible for the communists to win the civil war and achieve power in 1949.

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“Chiang Kai Shek and the KMT had more money, weapons and outside help than Mao Zedong and the Communists, yet the Communists won the Civil War.”

Explain why it was possible for the communists to win the civil war and achieve power in 1949.

In the early twentieth century China had many problems and there was a battle between two ideologies which were communism, which is a way of running a country equally this idea, was founded by Karl marks and nationalism this is a society ruled by democracy and capitalism. The communists lead by Mao Zedong won despite having fewer resources.

China at the beginning of the twentieth century was in a very bad state. Its industries were very old fashioned and inadequate which meant the country was becoming very poor. The population was very big even for a huge country and most of the population were peasants living with appalling standard of life. Warlords ruled most of china because the government wasn’t strong enough to govern the whole country this also lead to wide corruption. China was also being split up at this time because many European countries were buying parts of china like ports to get themselves more money for example Britain bought Hong Kong. The government of china was changing has well from a feudal system to a democracy which is a very hard thing to do. Soon china was nearly going to be split up by foreign influences this was highly unpopular with most Chinese people. Sun Yatsen was in power at the time starting to work on these problems but he died of cancer and Chiang Kai Shek came to power. The problems that china was facing were making some Chinese lose faith in the government and communism was starting to become an idea. The state of china at this time helped the communists win overall because for a start there were loads of peasants which helped them. Also people didn’t have all the faith in democracy so they were more open to a revolution.

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The communists wanted more popularity so the communists went to peasant villages and other places where they could show the peasants respect and teaching them the rules of Marxism. Marxism would appeal to the peasants alone because it was about equal power and the nationalists were not equal they didn’t help the peasants at all. However the communists also offered the peasants land by redistributing areas owned by landlords. The landlords controlled the peasants and treated them very badly by stealing and giving them no respect at all. This land reform gave the communists more man power because most ...

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