Long March

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Causes
Encirclement Campaigns,
- the first 3 campaigns weren't succesful despite the low troops (red army, 30k, the campaigns were up to the 100k+)

Jan-March 1933
- 4th Encirclement Campaign, 400k troops

October 1933
- 5th Encirclement Campaign, 1 million troops
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Dates
16 October 1934
- 80k soldiers and 20k CCP staff headed off on the Long March
- Weighed down, 30k covered on average

November 1934
- Xiang River
- Only 30k survived the journey
- Mao voices drew concern, heavy baggage discarded, march headed to Guizhou instead of Hunan

15-17 Jan 1935
- Zunyi Conference
- Established Mao's authrotiry over the 28 Bolsheviks
- Zhou Enlai "Had been right all the time"
- Mao promoted to Pulitburo Standing Commitee

25 Feb 1935
- First victory at the Battle of Loushan Pass

29 May 1935
- First front Army in Luding Bridge
- Defende by provincial warlod troops
- CCP accounts "22 heroes crossed the bridge while being shot at... enemy set fire to the bridge"

August 1935
- Entered the High Grasslands

19 October 1935
- Reached a small Communists base led by Gao Gang in Northern Xhaanxi

22 October 1935
- Long March ended
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Primary Quotes
"The equivalent of two marathons.."
Ed Jocelyn

"Disease of the soul."
- Jiang Jieshi (CCP), and the Japanese is the "disease of the skin."
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Negative Quotes
"One of the biggest myths of the twentieth century."
- Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

"A true story exploited for propaganda purposes.'
- Ed Joceyln
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Positive Quotes
"for Mao was the prophet who had led the survivors through the wilderness."
- Maurice Meisner

"Mao engaged in a dazzling, pyrotechnical display of mobile warfare."
- Phillip Short

"e of Mao to the leadership of the party, a decisive break with Soviet control, and the gradual marginalization of the party's Soviet-oriented leaders. "
- Elliot Liu
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Stats
- eleven provinces, crossed 24 rivers and 18 mountain ranges.
- only 7-8k