What was the reaction in America to the Communist takeover if China?
why is the communist takeover of china relevant to the cold war
After WW2 the United Nations began a policy of containment to prevent the spread of Communism. The Chinese civil war involved government nationalists and communist guerrilas. The US supported the nationalists to try to stop the communist takeover.
As a communist nation, China became part of the global communist alliance lead by the USSR. Western nations were in conflict with the communist bloc during the Cold War.
the nationalists, led by jiang jieshi
Formosa AKA Taiwan
In 1949 the nationalists under chiang Kai-shek arrived in Taiwan from the Chinese mainland. Along with them came more than 1.5 million refugees fleeing communist rule. Fearing a communist invasion, the nationalists kept a large army in the hope of someday retaking the mainland. They also blocked other political groups from sharing in the government.
China, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Indochina
The nationalists fled to Taiwan after the communists took over Mainland China.
No one chose, there was a civil war in which the Nationalists lost and the Communists won. So China has a Communist government.
They are forced to be Atheists in their communist state.
Taiwan before 1945 was referred to as Formosa which is Portuguese for "beautiful island". After World War 2, China became embroiled in a civil war between Nationalist forces and Communist forces. In the end, the Communist forces under Mao Zedong were victorious and so the Nationalists were forced to leave mainland China and instead moved to Formosa which they referred to as "The Republic of China" as opposed to mainland China which is the "Peoples' Republic of China".