This entire civil war was primarily about Nationalist and Communist control over China, with Mao Zedong and many others leading the communists and Chiang Kai-Shek leading the nationalists. Poverty was increasing and
China’s debt was very high, which made it worse on the already struggling citizens. Even though the struggle over communism and nationalism …show more content…
This proved to be a worthy strategy as the Communist philosophy and its party started to grow like wild fire in thr impoverished countryside who saw no hope for its future with Chiang. In October 1934, Mao Zedong led The Long
March, covering 6,000 miles in protest of Japanese incursions in the northern area of
China. As Japan increased their military warfare on China, Mao 's followers demanded the removal of foreign invasions. The communist philosophy of egalitarianism and market reforms allowed the peasantry and masses to think they would someday be free of years of oppression. Japan became increasingly more violent and aggressive. In the winter of 1938 the Japanese took Nanjing. The Japanese “ raped 20,000 women, killed 200,000 prisoners and civilians, and looted and burned the city.”(3). The Nanjing genocide angered the people of China, Chiang ordered the Yellow River Dam to be released, killing over
800,000 people, destroying 4,000 villages , and creating 12.5 million homeless people.(3a) The GMD or the Nationalists had alienated the the intellectuals. The elite