HIST 80b Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Chiang Kai-Shek, Zhang Xueliang, Tanggu Truce
8 May 2017
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The league of nations spoke against the act, and japan responded by leaving the league. In the years that followed, japan continued expanding south. The jangxia soviet was established in southern china by mao zedong. Mao eliminated the landlord class in jangxia and distributed the land to the farming peasants. The chinese government enacted the encirclement campaign during the tanggu truce period, with the goal of suppressing the communist forces. The campaign was largely successful and resulted in the. Long march that relocated mao and other future communist leaders to the north. Zhang xueliang invited jiang jieshi to alter their campaign by uniting with the communists against japan. Zhang kidnapped jiang jieshi and forced him to create an agreement, which he did. Jiang jieshi allied with communists, but decided to arrest zhang xueliang. The result was the second united front (anti-japanese alliance) between jiang jieshi and the communists.
