a second united front with the KMT. The KMT having been highly discredited by the Japanese forces and unable to successfully defend the cities were pushed to East and agreed on the United Front issue. Mao seeing an opportunity in millions of leaderless peasants presented the CCP as a refuge and successful resistance against the invaders. The Communists used their well-practiced guerilla warfare to cause havoc among the Japanese and increase the notoriety of the CCP. After the war in 1946, Mao was heralded as a brave yet fair leader.The Civil in war in China from 1946 to 1949 would see the fall of Chiang and the appointment of Mao as the head of China. The CCP, which was now strengthened and organized along with high popular support, was now ready to take on the KMT. Stalin and many of Mao's advisors recommended that China was tired of war and needed a break. Mao, firm in his quest for a Communist China pressed the assault anyway. Chiang was confident of a KMT victory, because the KMT had 1) American aid. 2) Eleven times the troops as Mao. Through a series of battles and campaigns the CCP started to win emerge as the victors against the corrupt and weak KMT. The Communists were very successful and by 1949 the KMT retreated to Taiwan. On October 1, 1949 Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.In 1951 Mao invented the Three Anti-Campaign, which was actually just a prototype for the Five Anti-Campaign, which came a year later in 1952. The original campaign focused on the aspects of corruption, waste and beaurocratic practice. The people it focused on, were the capitalists, merchants, financiers, officials and Communist Party members. When the campaign was switched to the Five-Anti campaign, it focused on bribery, tax evasion, and leakage of state and industrial secrets. Mao also had a system of thought put in place, especially for the scholars and professors from Japan and the West. These scholars had to p...
