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This video includes:

-How China became a communist nation since 1949
-The start of the Chinese Civil War in 1927
-The forces of the Chinese Nationalist Party fighting against the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party
-Chiang Kai-Shek serves as the leader of the Nationalists
-Mao Tse Tung as the leader of the Red Army
-Mao Tse Tung's Long March
-Mao turns the tide of the Chinese Civil War
-The Red Army evades Chiang Kai-Shek's forces for 370 days by traveling more than 8,000 miles
-His leadership during the Long March established Mao as the commander of the communist forces
-In 1937, the Chinese Civil War is put on hold when Japan invades China
-The Chinese Nationalists and the Red Army join forces with the intent of driving out the Japanese
-China fights Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War
-The Sino-Japanese conflict escalates into WWII
-The war lasts for eight years and the Allied Nations (the United States, Great Britain, etc.) assist the Chinese in defeating Japan
-The Chinese Civil War resumes with the end of WWII
-The fighting continues for another four years, with the Red Army of Mao Tse Tung eventually defeating Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese Nationalists
-The Chinese Nationalists flee and establish the island nation of Taiwan (which, to this day, is officially known as the Republic of China)
-China is taken over by the Red Army, with Mao Tse Tung becoming the Chairman of the Communist Party
-The nation of China is renamed The People’s Republic of China and it officially becames a communist nation
-The People's Republic of China still claims ownership over the island of Taiwan, while The Republic of China (Taiwan) claims to be the legitimate government of mainland China