CGS SS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dixie Mission, Zhou Enlai, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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World war ii (1941-1945), john service and the dixie mission, summer. 1944: 1937-1945 mao is in yunan; chiang kaishek is in chongqing. Japanese is wwii so the us is allying with china: roosevelt sends the dixie mission ; john service is the diplomat in charge. Chiang, they are taxed very heavily, he also says chiang is losing the support of the middle class and intellectuals: service sends people up to mao; some members of the dixie mission go to. Yanan; they speak with zhou enlai, and realize mao is the one the. Wwii will end soon, and mao vs. chiang will go to war, and the likelihood is mao will win. Americans that chiang is in trouble; there will be a civil war: wwii in asia ends in 1945; when the japanese surrender, all their troops leave. They send diplomats over to china to try to get mao and.