Ep. 121 | The Chinese Civil War (Part 3)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Welcome back to Part 3 of our overview of the Chinese Civil War. The focus this time will be on the Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin Campaigns that not only grabbed all of north China and Manchuria for the Communists but the heartland and everything north of the Yangzi River as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	Hey everyone, me again, Lauslau, Montgomery, coming to you irregularly, whenever time permits from the China History Podcast.com.
1:05.0	Part 3 today of our Chinese Civil War overview as we pick up where we left off last time.
1:12.0	It has been said many times by many historians
1:15.0	that Mao and the communist leadership did not expect to win the civil war so fast.
1:21.2	If you consider the moment both went at it full bore to be January
1:25.6	1946 when General George C. Marshall left and no one bothered to keep up good
1:31.2	appearances anymore. If that was where the war really started,
1:34.8	then you could say the armies of the CCP
1:37.4	put the armies of the KMT away in less than four years.
1:41.6	And beginning in January 1946 for the PLA, that was a come from
1:46.3	behind victory too. Last time we saw how in early 1947, Jiangs, generals generals came out with their guns blazing.
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