At the outset of the Chinese civil war, what was Josef Stalin's ...

[nelaaney]

Question 1

Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,
 
  a. Chiang Kai-shek finally obtained a firm grip on all but northwest China, and implemented a crash program of modernization, which won peasant support.
  b. the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power so that by 1945 up to thirty million people were under their control.
  c. Japan made peace with Chiang in 1940, joining him in a war against Mao's Communists.
  d. Mao Zedong married Chiang's daughter, which reunited China until the late 1950s.
  e. the Chinese Communist party changed its focus from organizing peasants to winning over the middle class city dwellers and the large bankers in Shanghai.

Question 2

At the outset of the Chinese civil war, what was Josef Stalin's reaction?
 
  a. He trusted and admired the independent-minded communist leader Mao Zedong.
  b. He did not expect a communist victory.
  c. He sent troops to aid the communist faction.
  d. He supported Chiang Kai-shek.
  e. He agreed to bomb Chinese border towns.

[tdewitt]

Answer 1

b

Answer 2

b

[nelaaney]

Both answers were spot on, thank you once again

[tdewitt]

Great! Please up vote