Long March 1934-1935
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 [...]