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Question 2: Study source B, why did the Long March begin? Use Source B and your own knowledge. 'We ourselves at the beginning did not know we were going on the Long March, and that it was going to be such a big thing' (Source B) The Long March was a huge military withdrawal made by the CCP to escape the GMD's Fifth Extermination Campaign from the Jianxi Soviet in 1934. However as the quote suggests it was not an isolated event. The Long March was a result of long and short-term factors each with different social, political and military purposes. It was a 30 year procedure that lead resulted in the occurrence of the long march. A long-term factor was giving emperor Pu-Yi his tile in China 1908, followed by the death of empress Dowager Cixi, as well as Pu-Yi being two years old. This was surely, the start of...

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