Examine the conditions, which allowed for the rise of the Communist party in China and explain how Mao Zedong took advantage of those conditions to take power in 1949

... Examine the conditions, which allowed for the rise of the Communist party in China and explain how Mao Zedong took advantage of those conditions to take power in 1949 China had been a land of unity until the mid-nineteenth century, wars rebellions and revolutions followed after that. When the last emperor abdicated and the Warlord Era came over the country the country fell in a state of chaos. The KMT then reunited the country promising the three principles of nationalism, democracy and land reform. Chiang Kai-Shek ignored the ideas of democracy and a land reform and soon the Chinese Communist Party gained support while the KMT lost their popularity. When the KMT then started their extermination campaign against the communists and Mao Zedong and his fellow members of the CCP went on the Long March a turning point came. The KMT was very inefficient and corrupt, there was no improvement in

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