TSR Wiki > Study Help > Subjects and Revision > Revision Notes > History > Long March 1934-5
- Causes
- German military advise encirclement and starve policy - deny resources
- Use pill-boxes
- Manned road blocks
- Supposedly to resist Japanese
- Nature
- Encompassed
- 6,000 Miles (Equivalent to marching from London to Lagos)
- 15 Battles
- 24 Rivers
- Effects
- Brotherhood, Suffering, Selflessness, Determination inculcated into Communist Party members.
- Mao rises
- Exposes urban communists as abandoning successful guerrilla tactics.
- Position weak before
- Voted in as chairman Politburo session
- Zhang Guoato chooses westward route (as it is nearer Russia). Fails, and rejoins Mao. Mao strengthened.
- CCP Survive and grow
- New Strategy
- United Front against Japan almost universally popular
- "Chinese don't fight Chinese"
- Abandon Class warfare
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