Two Republics of China

Read the second half of chapter 32 and answer the following questions, then review the first half of the chapter about South Africa.

1) Why had Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang agreed to be allies of the  Chinese Communist Party?
2) Why did Chiang Kai-shek think that communism was more dangerous than the Japanese invaders?
3) After Japan surrendered, did Chiang need the help of the Chinese communists/
4) Why was he afraid of the friendship between the CCP and the Soviet Union?
5) Who had the larger army - the CCP or the Kuomintang?
6) Why wasn't Joseph Stalin anxious to attack the Kuomintang army and take over China?
7) Did Mao and the CCP listen to Stalin's advice and stay friends with the Kuomintang?
8) Why were so many Chinese on the side of Mao and the CCP?
9) Why did Kuomintang soldiers begin to switch sides?
10) What was the Kuomintang capital?
11) What happened when the CCP soldiers, or Red Army, invaded Nanjing?
12) Where did Chiang and his remaining men go?
13) What kind of government did Chiang try to set up in Taiwan?
14) What did he call this country in exile?
15) Meanwhile, what country did the CCP and Mao claim to be governing?
16) What was Mao's title in the People's Republic of China?
17) What were Mao's collected writings called?
18) What was good about Mao's China?
19) In what way was Mao's China harsh and repressive?