Question
What if Mao was killed along with the other communists?
"We become what we do"
- Chiang Kai-Shek
Sun Yat Sen and the Kuomintang
•Led the Kuomintang
•Had trouble getting foreign aid because they were socialist (except USSR)
•Wanted to establish a socialist democracy
•Country was dominated by warlords
•Had trouble getting foreign aid because they were socialist (except USSR)
•Wanted to establish a socialist democracy
•Country was dominated by warlords
- left wing - no support from other countries other than ---USSR
- -Dr. Sun Yat Sen
- -Unifier
Chiang Kai-Shek
•Became leader of the Kuomintang in 1925 after Sun Yat Sen died
•Communist, Mao Zedong, was leader of propaganda
•Soon controlled all of China south of the Yangste River
•Rid his party of Communists, killed many while others like Mao fled to remote parts of China
•Communist, Mao Zedong, was leader of propaganda
•Soon controlled all of China south of the Yangste River
•Rid his party of Communists, killed many while others like Mao fled to remote parts of China
- becomes leader of kuomintang after sun
- mao (communist) - leader of propaganda
- get rid of communists so mao fled
- later becomes first president of taiwan after he lost to communist
- he is a hero to taiwanese
Summary
Sun Yat Sen was the leader of the Kuomintang he helped change the face of china at the time and lead the way to the CCP. Chiang Kai - Shek fled and started his own party in Taiwan.