Between the Mid-1930s and the End of World War II

question 4

Multiple Choice

Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,

• A) Chiang Kai-shek finally obtained a firm grip on all but northwest China, and implemented a "crash program" of modernization, which won peasant support.
• B) the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power so that by 1945 up to thirty million people were under their control.
• C) Japan made peace with Chiang in 1940, joining him in a war against Mao's Communists.
• D) Mao Zedong married Chiang's daughter, which reunited China until the late 1950s.
• E) the Chinese Communist party changed its focus from organizing peasants to winning over the middle class city dwellers and the large bankers in Shanghai.

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