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The Chinese Civil War

1945–49

Jonathan Webb explores why Mao Tse-tung’s Communists defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War

The Communist People’s Liberation Army entering Guangzhou in 1949
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AQA AS The impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946–1976

Edexcel AS Crises, tensions and political divisions in China, 1900–1949

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