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Chinese Civil War
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PLA invades Japanese occupied lands
Chu Teh, commander in chief of the PLA ordered his troops to seize all towns, cities, and communication centres under Japanese occupation to recieve the enemy's surrender and military supplies., Within two weeks of the Japanese surrender, the communists expanded their territory from 116 to 175 counties. -
Nationalists determined to recover Manchuria
Chiang committed nearly half a million of his best equipped troops to Manchuria - a decision he was to regret later. By then the CCP forces had almost completely dominated the vast countryside of these pockets, thus confronting the Nationalists with an untenable position. -
Political Consultive Conference
Marshall's mediation achieved an immediate ceasefire, the work of the PCC was more favourable to the Communists than to the Nationalists. -
CCP occupies Changchun
The CCP dealt a crushing blow to the Nationalist army and occupied the strategic city of Changchun -
Marshall recalled
Marshall realized that he had failed miserably in his mission. In his fairwell message to the Chinese people, he blamed the KMT irreconcilable groups for their feudal control of China and lack of interest implementing the PCC resolutions. -
Turning point for Nationalists
The victory laden Nationalist machine began to sputter due to increased assignment of soldiers to garrison duties in reconquested areas with a reduction in actual fighting forces. The communists went on a general offensive scorying victory in Honan and northern Hopeh -
Communist army expands steadily
The PLA had expanded to 1.95 million compared to 3.73 million for the KMT -
Blow to Nationalists in Manchuria
Lin Piao's army had inflicted losses of 150,000 on the crack Nationalist army. -
Communists conquers Shantung
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Lin conquers northern China
Having destroyed 100,000 government troops, he conquered Chinchow, Changchun and Mukden. The Manchuria campaign had cost Chiang 470,000 of his best troops. -
Communists control Hsuchow
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Tientsin captured by PLA
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Peiping captured by PLA
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Chiang forced to resign as President
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Mao proclaims the establisment of the PRC
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Nationalists flees to Taiwan