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to known the Co W . ough it did not involve ac ting ­ tween the and the US. , the U. gove ment in gene l op d Communism and ed to prevent·the viet Union from r sing its wer.
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The Y ta eren had al taken up the question of e territ ries conquered by Japan in Asia Ag n to obt Stalin's c tion, the viet Union w promi control over many of i rrito es, cluding chur a d North Kor Stalin's g l was to tee a vic­ tory for the C Communist forces eking to control all of
1912 the old Chine em ror had en overthrow d men strongly influenced by weste ideas of dem cy had attempted to t up a li r parliamen gove ment is proved unworkable and chaos n r lted. Out of the cha two leade emerge Mao T -tun leading the Commun ts, and Chiang i-she a Christian anti- mmunist who controlled the gove ent (Nationalist) forc In 1 7 civil w b ke out tween the mmunists and Nationalist who fou t e h other for al­ most 25 y
Throughout the late 1 and during World War C ng and his men fought valiantly against the Japane . After Pearl Har r, Chian s spirited defen of China against Japan's a ion helped ve the U. time to rebuild its s ttered fleet Mao and his Communists ve me help against Japan, but more often turned their guns a st the National­ ist
After the war and as a result of the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union was in a ition to ur aid into China for the Communi Wo down by twenty yea of fighting the mmunists and the Japan , Chi­ ang needed U. help to carry on. But in the US the climate of opinion was ing tu ed against Chiang. Harry xter White, a Communist sym­ pathizer who had an im rtant sition in the Treasury rtment, un­ dermined U.S. economic aid to Chian me mem rs of the State ­ partment were stron y sympathetic to Mao and did everything they could to e that the U. ve as little sup rt as ible to Chian Many arti­ cles and ks were written condemning Chiang and praising Ma As a result the U.S. dually cea its aid to Chiang and the Nationalist
e tuation of the Nationalists e steadily wor In me bat­ tles their ldiers had only three or four cartridges each Once, a division of soldiers coming to the front to relieve another division had to take the re-