Factors weakening Chiang Kai-shek during the Civil War included
a. middle class indifference toward his regime because of its refusal to provide them with lucrative government jobs.
b. peasant enthusiasm to Mao's promises to give land to the peasants.
c. the refusal of the United States to give even limited military support to the Nationalist armies.
d. the fact that 85,000 former Japanese occupation troops were fighting in his army and elite Japanese units formed his bodyguard.
e. Chiang's alliance with Japan during World War II.
b
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a. true b. false
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