Summary.
The Long March was a 9000 km retreat across China by Mao and the Red Army which lost 3/4ths of his army where they settled in the north and forms the Yenan Soviet. The CCP began to gain power due to the resistance of the Japanese, Kuomintang was worried about fighting the CCP, treated villages they went through very well.
The Long March, 1934
- The Long March
- A military retreat undertaken by the Red Army
- To evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang
- There was not one Long March, but a series of marches
- Various Communist armies in the south attempted to escape to the north and west
- The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic on the brink of annihilation by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops
- The Communists escaped in a circling retreat to the west and north
- Traversed some 12,500 kilometers (8,000 miles) over 370 days
- The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong
- Completed by only one-tenth of the force that left Jiangxi
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