Who was Mao Zedong, and how did he present a challenge to the Chinese government? What was the Long March
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Students should explain that before the Japanese invasion in 1931 the Chinese government under the Guomindang was recovering. The main challenge to the rule of the Guomindang was the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communists were advised to join the Guomindang and to subvert the government from within. The leader of the Guomindang, Chiang Kai-shek, eventually turned on the Communists and had them arrested. Some Communists escaped, Mao Zedong among them. Students should describe his background and his ideas. Mao Zedong applied the theories of Marxism to China by substituting the industrial proletariat with Chinese peasantry. His plans for China included land redistribution and women's rights. When the Guomindang pursued the Communists into the mountains, Mao and his forces eventually broke out of this encirclement and began the Long March, a 6,000-mile trek to Shaanxi.
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