The Long March
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On October 16, 1934, 100,000 Chinese Communist troops set out on a 6,000 mile trek from their base in Kiangsi. This trek, later to be known as the Long March, began after Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist armies (the Kuomintang) thwarted the fledgling Communist organization in Southeast China. The Long March was an arduous journey; approximately 90,000 men and women died before it was over. However, communism was not eliminated in China. This paper argues that the Long March galvanized commitment to_ the communist cause and thus was the key precursor to the eventual victory of the Communist Party in China in 1949. By narrowly escaping defeat and destruction through the Long March, the Communists were able to re-build support to fight the Nationalists once again - and this time they won.
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