1. High inflation resulted in riots and crime which lost the GMD support.
“CCP strengths”
GMD weaknesses”.
Political
Mao accurately realised that many Chinese people did not want war, and so tried to win their support from the GMD.
See LIST OF STENGTHS
High inflation resulted in riots and crime which lost the GMD support.
Blueshirts used harsh methods against GMD critics like murder.
Even Chiang says in 1947 the GMD corrupt and disunited.
America stops funding the GMD
Held urban centres and wealthy areas, but not the countryside!
Military
The Communists took territory in northern and central China.
The Communists stole weapons from the GMD and the retreating Japanese army. The Soviet army also gave captured Japanese weapons to the CCP.
The Communists were well placed to take control of occupied Japanese land.
The GMD army was American trained, well equipped, large – 3 million men – and good at BIG battles but lacked popular support. BUT the PLA was fighting a guerilla war, and was well supported by the peasants. The GMD army could not fight this war effectively.
Explain terms, PLA co called from 1946.