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The Second Chinese Civil War 1946-49** - The severest blow to the Nationalists occurred in Manchuria, where against American advice Chaing committed half a million of his best troops - Within the first three months in 1947, Lin Piao's (a CCP military leader) army had inflicted losses of 150,000 on the Nationalist Army - By mid 1948, Lin had tigntened the encirlement that he practically smothered the Nationalist defenders - The __Manchurian campaign__ cost Chiang 470,000 of his best troops - A mortal blow was also dealt to the morale of the entire government army - In the opinion of General David Barr, it "spelled the beginning of the end" for the Nationalist cause
 * __ The conclusion to the war __

__Jan 1948:__   On all fronts the Communists had became strong to launch full scale positional warfare __Sept 1948:__ After capturing Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, Communist General Chen Yi linked up with Liu Bocheng and began to strive towards Nanjing, the Nationalist capitial

__Nov 1948 - Jan 1949:__ The Beijing-Tianjin Campaign resulted in the Communist conquest of northern China lasting 64 days. - The People's Liberation Army suffered heavy casualties from securing Zhangjiakou, Tianjin along with its port and garrison at Dagu, and Beiping. - The CPC brought 890,000 troops from Manchuria to oppose some 600,000 GMD troops. - 520,000 GMD soldiers where killed, wounded or captured during the campaign

__Late 1948- Early 1949:__ The battle of Huaihai took place - This battle was disastrous for the Nationalists - The Nationalists lost 200,000 soliders who were killed and a further 300,000 were defected or were captured - The Communists recieved valuable logistic support from 2 million peasants - This battle secured east-central China for the CCP - The deafeat at Huaihai broke the heart of the Nationalists.


 * By late 1948 the Nationalist position was bleak.
 * The demoralized and undisciplined Nationalist troops proved no match for the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
 * Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.
 * from September 1948- Janurary 1949 the Nationalist government had lost one and one-half million men
 * Under such staggering losses, the Nationalist forces simply collasped

Soldiers of the victorious People's Liberation Army enter Beijing in June 1949.

After __Jan 1949__, the Nationalists offered little resistance

__Janurary 1949:__ Beijing surrended to the Communists

__Janurary 21 1949:__ Chiang was forced by the peace faction within his own party to resign - Vice President Li Tsung-jen took over the reins of government - With Victory so close at hand, mao saw no reason to compromise with the GMD

__April 1949:__ Communist forces crossed the Yangtze River and headed towards Nanjing-the Nationalist Capital, Nanjing was surrended to the Communists, driving the the refugee government to seek asylum in Canton


 * The communist advance now accelerated in all directions and could not be stopped

__October 1 1949:__ Mao proclaims the People's Republic of China to cheering crowds at Tiananmen Square - Mao was so confident of Communist victory at this point that The People's Republic of China was procliamed even before the whole of China was conquered

Mao Zedong proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949.

__December 8 1949:__ Chiang Kai-shek led 2 million of his supporters to the island of Taiwan, where he was protected by the guns of the United States Seventh Fleet - Now the Communist conquest of mainland China was complete