1. BELLWORK: 12/10 Why did the CCP and GMD form the Second United Front?
List three ways the Sino-Japanese War impacted the CCP.
List three ways the Sino-Japanese War impacted the GMD.
THINKER: How did both parties benefit from the Second United Front?

2. The Second United Front
Why did the CCP and GMD form the Second United Front?
How did both parties benefit from the Second United Front?

3. Impact of the sino-japanese war
Problems with the GMD
Impact on the CCP
Large support areas fell under Japanese control
Loss of tax revenue
Print more money = inflation
Corruption
Ill-treated troops
Japanese control of ports = low supplies
Factions formed
Jiang’s response = repression!
Lacked control over provinces
Exhausted from fighting – high death tolls against Japanese
Lost public support – puppet of W. Imper.
Used the war with Japan to carry out policy of revolutionary warfare
“our fixed policy should be 70% expansion, 20% dealing with the GMD, and 10% resisting the Japanese.”
Control of 678 out of 914 towns
Land Reform
Improved education
Reducing taxes
Egalitarian policies
Women’s rights
Successes cause people to see them as the true nationalists – surge in popularity

4. Review game
Before you read about the Second stage of the CCW tonight, let’s review the first stage!
You will be playing head-to-head with one other person in the class.

5. HOMEWORK
Read pgs about the second stage of the Chinese Civil War

6. China: A Century of Revolution 1911-1949
Start at 46:08! Post Long March – Second United Front