HW 4

1.) Communists were able to use propaganda much more effectively than the Nationalists and thus garner the support of the peasants. The Communists used a much less formal form of military encounter and used guerilla warfare to strike at Nationalist forces when they were exhausted
2.) The tipping point came when the Russians offered assistance to the Communist troops in the form of military advisors.
3.) The source seemed to greatly under estimate the difficulty with which the Communists defeated the Nationalists. The sources also address the fact that the Communist were forced to use guerilla tactics.
4.) GRU : Soviet Military Intelligence
CCP : Chinese Communist Party
HQ : Headquarters
5.) The passage explains how the Nationalists temporarily took time to fight the Japanese, which gave the Communists time to regroup. The Communists spent this time reconfiguring supplies and gather use of the intelligence and equipment given to them by the Soviets.
6.)The Nationalists seemed to want to defend the mainland from Japanese far more than the Soviets, because the Nationalists wanted China to return to its former glory.
7.) The nationalists would have only wanted to remove the Japanese threat from the mainland, while the Communists could have potentially worked with the Japanese to destroy the Nationalists far more easily.
8.) Chang Kai-shek withdrew all troops from affected areas so that Mao may have been better able to lead his troops.