Long March 1934-1935
Posted on December 13, 2008, 7:48 am, by EssayMart, under
1927 - 1949.
- Causes
- German military
advise encirclement and starve policy - deny resources
- Use pill-boxes
- Manned road blocks
- Supposedly to resist
Japanese
- Nature
- Encompassed
- 6,000 Miles
(Equivalent to marching from London to Lagos)
- 15 Battles
- 24 Rivers
- Effects
- Brotherhood,
Suffering, Selflessness, Determination inculcated into Communist Party
members.
- Mao rises
- Exposes urban
communists as abandoning successful guerrilla tactics.
- Position weak
before
- Voted in as
chairman Politburo session
- Zhang Guoato
chooses westward route (as it is nearer Russia). Fails, and rejoins Mao.
Mao strengthened.
- CCP Survive and
grow
- New Strategy
- United Front
against Japan almost universally popular
- "Chinese
don’t fight Chinese"
- Abandon Class
warfare