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Examine the circumstances in China in the years 1945-49. What did the United States do to resolve the conflict between the Nationalists and the Communists there?

  • UPSC 2002
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

The four years between Japan's surrender in 1945 and Mao Zedong's proclamation of the People's Republic in October 1949 saw the collapse of an uneasy wartime alliance into full civil war, with American mediation ultimately failing to prevent it.

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  • Circumstances in China, 1945–49
  • The Post-Surrender Vacuum
  • The Balance of Forces
  • The Slide into Civil War
  • The United States' Effort to Resolve the Conflict
  • Early Wartime Positioning
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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