@@Ceqsy, there were technically a few warlords still around during this time, but by this point they were so irrelevant and so under Nationalist control that they didn't really matter. Still, the last warlord state wouldn't officially be abolished until after the PRC was declared in 1949.
I just wanna point out: The Manchus came south from Manchuria and conquered the Ming Dynasty The Ming fled to Taiwan The communists came south from Manchuria (in this part of the war) and conquered the Kuomintang The Kuomintang then fled to Taiwan It’s literally a repeat of history
You should make the video back from the year 1945. At this state from 1947, although KMT controlled a larger area of China, the result of the war is almost determined, since CCP had better control of the Northeast (Manchuria) which had at the time more than 80% of heavy industry of mainland China. As one knows, modern wars rely largely on the amount of heavy industry production which manufactures weapons and ammunition for the war. Furthermore, Chinese people in Manchuria are almost all immigrant from internal provinces since late 19 century and therefore easier to be mobilized for a war (in motivating the farmers in Manchuria CCP is far more better than KMT, that is key point. CCPmanaged to appoint many local Manchuria people to work for them in the government, but KMT just sent some bureaucrat from south part of China who are not familiar with Manchuria.) Lacking of economic supplies, the area and military of KMT in Manchuria soon got shrinked and isolated in several big cities like Shenyang and Changchun and could not escape and finally surrendered) Then everything is done by CCP easily from Manchuria to the South just like Jin conquered North Song and Qing conquered Ming several hundred years ago.
Before Kuomintang started this war, Kuomintang had more than 5m soldiers, with much superior weapons, air forces, navy from US and better economy. However, Communists only had 1m soldiers (mostly are militiaman) , with terrible supply (1 gun for 3 soldiers) and no air forces and navy at all. Why Communists still won this war? The answer is people chose Communists in that time. No one knows what will happened after communists took over China, but in that time, Kuomintang was as bad as hell.
+Abelard He I think its mostly because the Communists were more trained in guerrilla warfare. Although the Kuomintang controlled a majority of China they were poorly motivated and most people didn't want to fight another war.
Because Soviet Union supported Communist China, meanwhile US stopped support Nationalist because US didn't want Nationalist removed the Communist , Actually Nationalist didn't have Better equipment as well, Communist have a shit tons of weapon from Soviet and Imperial Japanese equipment from Captured Manchuria
@Nazx 36 Well, they didn't want Japan to turn their attention to them, I think. But they would've preferred the communists still, which is why they supported them post WW2.
Yeah, in the beginning, Soviet forces refused to give any military assistance to the minor PLA, and Kuomingtang was also taken up the main cities of Manchuria with the help of US, in short, both CPC and KMT were equally struggled on the land of Manchuria in the 1946.
Actually, people in China have an abysmal standard of living and people in Taiwan are rich and live at the level of Germans or French; much like what happened with North and South Korea; and today, China is, for all intents and purposes, a Capitalist country. Additionally, America and Capitalism won the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated and Socialism caused MILLIONS to die and failed miserably; just as it has failed in every country it has been attempted on, including Cuba, Somalia, Rumania, Venezuela, East Germany, Albania, Yugoslavia, North Korea and many others. INCLUDING CHINA.
I am only here for the music on background. What a great music that is. I always listen it when I am studying for my exams. It improve my concentrate, memory and focus….
@@parvchetri0995 The Japanese didn't help them directly, but the Soviets took over Manchuria and the Japanese Army handed over their equipment to the Soviets, and then the Soviets to the Communists
Kuomintang had everything it needs to win this civil war. But it's army's fighting capability in terms of morale and leadership is just not up to part. Gonna admit though, communists have its way of winning wars, the fact they didn't lose the Korean war is just a simple proof.
The key difference was that KMT didnt have centralized command of its army, leaving it up to "loyal" warlords. Yes Chiang had an elite force trained by Germans but it was destroyed by the Japanese in Nanjing. Wherever Mao went, the main condition was that he got centralized command of the armies, any warlord that offered to join the communists had to give up command of the armies etc. Looking at this map in a strategy video game mindset will make you wonder how KMT lost if they controlled so much more territory. The problem was that most of KMT's territory was controlled by warlords who only cared about defending their "feud", it was near impossible to organize them into a centralized fighting force against communists.
BadMic - James Yeah, but they are a democracy now. And during ww2 China and the US had the same enemy which was Japan that made them allies, and the Nationalists would still hate the communists in Russia which would have continued good sino American relationship.
The main value of the nation was established on the three principle. Fascism was only introduced temporarily to reduce instability since China was facing threats from Japan and regional warlords.
Just to state my humble opinion: The communist party and Mao surely were terrible but the Kuomintang around Chiang Kai-Shek were equally bad since he planned to create a military dictatorship. And before you state your own opinion like a lot of people already did, please inform yourself about Chinas history from the late 1800s when the british first invaded China to the point where the actual civil war takes place. There are a lots of things to learn before you are actually able to form a valid opinion on this topic.
I have done the research and I think you're wrong. Here's why: - The Nationalists weren't communists (duh) so they wouldn't have committed the a Great Leap Forward (collectivization) or the Cultural Revolution. - Taiwan eventually became a democracy, even though Chiang ruled there for decades. It isn't impossible mainland China would have as well. - Chiang could have been replaced with someone more competent. Mao had a cult of personality that made this impossible.
Plus, the western countries would've been able to communicate and trade well with Kuomintang China as it is not Communists so that means they are not technically an enemy during the Cold War.
captalist chinese lost every war since 1840 first opium war,1860 second opium war,1860 russian invation ,1895 japan invasion,1900 16countries invasion,1911 russian occupation of outer mongolia,and tuva mongolia,1923 britain invasion and occupation of west tibet,1931-1937 japan invasion of north east china.so the capitalist or democracy no longer has the legitimacy to run this country,the people choose mao.for me ,a student study in german, i must say,chair mao is one the top3 greatest man in the history.who self revive china of its glory and make the counry strong and power from many weak fragments.we give the capitalist 100 year to do experiments,but the chinese capitalist can not bulid strong industry,guns,rocket,science,technology,metal production,ship,navy,air force,and atom weapons.only the communists party of china is the qualified one,they got the mandate of heaven and the Gods give them their right to lead this country.
What you need to know is that in the early days of the Civil War, the Kuomintang army had four times the number of the Communist Party. The Kuomintang had a large number of American weapons and Japanese equipment, and it also controlled three-quarters of China's population. The Communist Party only has an advantage in popular sentiment and tactics.
Not really the case if you truly look into it. KMT had huge army, some of them are elite veterans equiped with American weapons including tanks, planes, automatic weapons. Weaker KMT troops seized most of the Japanese equipment and they were fully equipped. While the CCP have lower number, less control area, not enough weapon overall. The failure of KMT cannot just be explained by the military failure, because their collapse was built from years of bad ruling.
Next Friday there will be two new videos! June 12th happens to be an anniversary for one of the major events in one of the videos next week. Good luck guessing what they are. :P
***** wasn't independent tibet a bit smaller than the modern chinese province of tibet? you show it on the map bordering burma, which I don't think it did.
***** Empe first i want to say Nice video take a like from me.2nd i want to say kuomintag it was something as we call the allies of king or something...as the white army in russian civil war ? Or they are the democrats ?
1949 was a historical year, behind the vid there r lots of soldiers came to Taiwan with KMT at that time... Lots of soldiers' families died in 1960'-1970' of the cultural revolution So when those young soldiers finally get home after 38 years(1987)...most of their homelands and families were vanished, parents and siblings died when they were in TW, and with no connection no one knew whether their families were still alive or not. Lots of man knew their parents died when they first went home after 38 years, like my grandpa, left his parents at 17 as a teenager, first time went back home at 57 as a grandfather. Every time he went back home when he visited the cemetery, he bent the knee and cried heavily, cuz he felt guilty he ever had the chance to take care of his parents. It was a tragedy history
From a glance it would appear that too much effort and energy was spent holding on to pockets of resistance deep inside Communist held areas. While symbolic, it ultimately exhausted the Chinese government forces and precipitated the quick collapse of their forces elsewhere in the country within the few short months of 1949. If more effort was placed on consolidating their defences in areas where they still had generally undisputed control from 1945 - 1948 (generally south of the Yangzi River), they could have held out and probably stabilised the lines of control along that river eventually before forcing a diplomatic and political solution.
KMT spent way too much energy trying to defend encircled pockets in the north instead of withdrawing and focusing on building up the south or even just fortifying the Yangtze River. Mao was a pretty good military leader. But he was ass at ruling a country in peacetime, if he died on the eve of unification and handed it all over to Zhou Enlai the PRC would be way better off than it is today.
@@ximrade4287 Chiang Kai-Shek was "destroyed" not by THE Mao Zedong, but by the soviet and japanese weapons as well, Mao Zedong captured all China with the Soviet help, meanwhile in 1925 Chiang Kai-Shek became the ruler of China by his own, without the foreign help! And yes, Mao Zedong wasnt a military commander, while his zombie soldiers fought, he was swimming in the vine pool, eating, and f*cking the young 18-20 years old girls!
You seem to have forgotten that both Mongolia and Tibet were integral parts of the Republic of China. Even today, maps printed in the Republic of China (Taiwan) show this. It's only very recently that the ROC (Taiwan) has started, somewhat unofficially, to drop Mongolia from a few maps.
During the Chinese civil war, was President Truman and many other US political & military leaders aware of the corruption and the unpopularity of the KMT government? Also did the US tried to provide some aid to the KMT government?
US Government only provide aid to the KMT DURING WW2 when they fought against Japan. But that was basically it. After WW2 in 1946-1950, the US Government were primarily focus on War Reparations & Reconstruction Projects in Europe (especially the case with the split Germanys of East & West Germany) & Asia was practically neglected from 1946-1950. It was not until KMT retreated to Taiwan in 1950 that the US Government started to become aware of Communist spread in Asia that they started to get involved. First with former Imperial Japan in 1950, they saw Communist Buildup & of course the Korean War. That's where they came up with the term "Domino Effect" when they noticed the KMT retreated to Taiwan, combined with Tibet falls, & Korea about to fall to communism.
They were aware. Truman was actually pretty on the fence about supporting the KMT because of the corruption and because many in the United States naively believed the CCP to be communist in name only. If the United States had backed the KMT unconditionally, they probably would have won. The corruption in the KMT was more a result of post war instability anyhow. It would have been rooted out in time.
@@gsacelm7753 UA-cam is blocked in China because they want to raise local competition and alternative. It is not illegal though, and in places like Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, UA-cam isn't blocked. Some hotels, schools, and universities allow access to UA-cam.
Lin Biao and Zhu De both commanded the People's Liberation Army and led their troops to victory in China, forced the Kuomintang to flee the mainland to Taiwan, followed by invasions of Tibet and Xinjiang, then helped the North Korean forces during the war with the capitalist South.
chris succee Well, by the way population grows pretty much everyone is descendant from the very first emperors so I guess I nominate myself for such title :P
+Gavrilo Taiwan is really prosperous as well. China would still have developed if the Nationalists had won, but it would be a democracy instead of an oligarchy, and would have avoided the whole "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" fiascos.
It's also a bummer for the KMT. During the Inter War years in the 1930-1940, the KMT did received a lot of equipment from Nazi Germany from that Sino-German Cooperation of 1930-1940 (hence, why you did saw some of the KMT soldiers were wearing Wehrmacht Stalhelms helmets & were using Wehrmacht arms like the Mauser guns). If the German Tiger series tanks were produced in 1930-1940 (instead of the actual years of 1941-1945), then maybe the KMT might acquired some King Tigers, Tiger 1s & Panthers in their tank battalion, which could give the KMT a HUGE ADVTANTAGE over the Imperial Japanese during their war in 1938-1945 & would DEFINITELY be an advantage against the Communist China in 1946-1950.
its true the kmt had better tech from logistics to fire power but it was incredibly corrupt and facist hence why the majority of Chinese turned against them and why hitler endorsed them with wepons and support.
Don't think so, the maintenance was quite high and was extremely specialized, the communists also engaged in guerilla warefare so the tanks would've only seen action in the major cities.
Tibet wouldn't be considered a warlord nation. Though their history is complex, they considered themselves an independent nation and did not seek active hostilities. Mongolia was considered independent as well, to the point of having their own independent communist regime.
Tibet and mongolia forces don't belong to the central military arm of KMT, but they are parts of China then. The PRC and ROC admitted the independence of Mongolia respectly in 1950s and in 2012. So they should be marked purple. The video doesn't include Changdu Campaign and 8-23 campaign
Sadly the communists destroyed the culture you like in the Cultural Revolution. Relics were smashed, books were burned and intellectuals were tortured.
It's really sad to see China at the time to be in a pickle, as both the Communists and the Nationalists were terrible in their own fashion. I mean Chieng-Kai Shek used Press Gangs and kidnapping to recruit more people into the Nationalist Army, and the Nationalists were also authoritarian in nature, so for the Chinese choosing the side of the Commies wasn't a decision they have taken lightly because the Commies would promise land to the peasants whereas the Nationalists would give them back to the Warlords loyal to the Nationalists.
If Kuomintang won the war, North Korea would not exist and even Tibet would still be an independent country to this day, and last but not least, Taiwan would still be ruled from Beijing.
@@Nishkid641 the taiwan constitution was created in 1946 and it already claim the entire kingdom of tibet (and mongolia) considering the ccp didn't take tibet until 1950 its easy to see that they didn't plan on just letting them stay independent had they won
Another well done product. some comments:1.warlords are not, technically speaking, errors. KMT had relatively weak control over some "cliques". 2. About some kids whining wrong side won the war or china is hell thing, that might be true, but KMT was a lot worse. The main reason they governed TW ok was because they did land reform as they have no connection to local gentry, with properties confiscated from Japan. They could never enact that in China. Chiang Chingguo tried to start some small & mild reformation in Shanghai, look at what happened. Had KMT won, I doubt China would be better now, if not hell. Partially because KMT was way way more corrupted. Whoever thinks KMT was better represents 0.1% of whole population, they forgot peasants are people. 3. Yes Taiwan and HK are better than mainland, and I can see HK has been going down ever since the takeover(Although I personally suspect it has more to do with gradual globalization of china if you look at big picture. Actually, Tw is a perfect example. This country's econ became stagnation ever since it embraced"democracy"). but a lot hker and twnese are just whiners. Nothing wrong with fighting for democracy, if only you can do it in a respectable, reasonable and practical way. Protest all day you want, see if cpc wil eventually bring tanks, or they just dont give a shit and stop giving economical and political privileges( = apply same policies to all other mainland cities, which they are doing right now) and let hk naturally decline and become nothing special eventually 4. youtube is a stupid place anyway, you can believe whatever you want without conducting any research.
Well you really think Mao's commies weren't corrupted? Stealing military cars for Selling opium during the war ! Make the peasants suffer of famine when they were eating like emperors! Destroying Chinese culture just for keeping power! Saying that the KMT was corrupted is correct but never forget the corruption of the PRC
actually, the kuomintang was much smaller. All those western territories like Xinjiang/Sinkiang or Tibet were independent and just partial chinese territories. The republic of china (today taiwan) didnt have control over those western territories. (i know it coz my grandfathers lived in Xinjiang and flee far away to europe because of the revolution/civil war)
That Was Only In The First Part. By 1946 Kuomintang Had Complete Control Over The Entire Country. Remember There Were 2 Parts, Before And After The Second Sino-Japanese War
I say it now I think. First, I don't like Russia, USA and a bit China. That is nothing against the people, it is against the government of these countries. USA tries to command the World, Russia to fight against Ukraine and provoke a 3rd WW. And China is the Country which is between good and bad. I don't hate China as much as the other 2 and they are, compared to other countries not my favorite, but still ok . But I'm not sure if the Kuomintang would have been better. Why couldn't they all be as peaceful and interested in peace as e.g. Europe.
Axel Müller heh Europe is only interested in peace now... they have been the center of global conflict for CENTURIES every global conflict can be traced in some way to rivalries in Europe, Europe is only interested in peace now because they have been wrapped up in wars for centuries side note: I’m not trying to defend any specific country I’m just trying to say that every country has its faults whether it’s the US, Europe or even Africa no country is even close to perfect
@@connorh2215 sure, they fought enough wars in the past and I it is good that Europe is so peaceful. But, if Europe will again build an Army, it will be twice as high as the chinese army or the American. It seems that Europe is the only country in this world that does not want war. I wish USA and Russia would think the same, especially USA.
Axel Müller yes I hope actually that Europe the us and other countries decide that building a large army is not worth it instead focusing on finding inner improvements and science for the betterment of humans
I want to point out that even though we can see the change of frontline on maps, we cannot really tell the significance of the battles that push the line. For example, some key battles took place and caused the destruction or surrender of the several strongest armor spearhead and mechanized troops of KMT. There aren't big changes on the map when those battles take place, the important moves are most of the time almost invisible in the video. Still, it is a nice video to watch, but reading is still the better way to truly understand history if someone is interested.
which documents？Qing dynasty claim Tibet as territory. it is british want to grap Tibet and denied it. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/01/19/101830147.pdf
@RogerwilcoFoxtrot Qing emperor is of Manchu origin so Qing is not a Chinese dynasty? Are you an idiot? How many non-Persian dynasties did Iran have? How many non-Hindu dynasties did India have? How many non-Anglo dynasties did England have? So why China is so different? Hongtaiji declared himself as the Chinese emperor and that's all, needless to mention Tibet itself was conquered by Han Chinese general Yue Zhongqi. Next time before barking sth non-sense, learn your own history first.
2:19 You didn't forget the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
That's some good attention to detail
Fun Fact: The Kuomintang still exist today as Taiwan, or their actual name: The Republic of China.
+JustYourAverageRetro OOOH REALLY ????! O_o"
No shit Sherlock xDDD
+NuclearBlizzard / Razing789 / Airstorm Sure it does.
+Wu Martin it does.
+JustYourAverageRetro I think everyone knows China knows this.
+陳闈 Don't trust the Commies
Those other warlords sure did last long and against incredible odds, but they and their amazing ghost armies were finally defeated on October 1, 1949
where were the warlords?
@@Hi-oj3pp nowhere, that’s why he said “the warlords and their ghost armies” because there isn’t any army
@@Ceqsy makes sense
@@Hi-oj3pp yea i dont know why he added them in the first place
@@Ceqsy, there were technically a few warlords still around during this time, but by this point they were so irrelevant and so under Nationalist control that they didn't really matter. Still, the last warlord state wouldn't officially be abolished until after the PRC was declared in 1949.
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I just wanna point out:
The Manchus came south from Manchuria and conquered the Ming Dynasty
The Ming fled to Taiwan
The communists came south from Manchuria (in this part of the war) and conquered the Kuomintang
The Kuomintang then fled to Taiwan
It’s literally a repeat of history
Did you get this from Brain4Breakfast?
May he rest in peace.
There's also the Ming holdout in Burma, just like the Nationalist holdout. Amazing how history repeats itself lol
Taiwan: graveyard for the last bits of the leftover govt in mainland China
@@phoenix3660 that’s only happened twice lol
@@shawnv123 afghanistan killing a nation has only happened twice. say what you will :grin!
"You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long"
-Leonid Brezhnev
Isn't that by Yeltsin
You forgot to mention “The kuomintang people retreated back to Taiwan”
You should make the video back from the year 1945. At this state from 1947, although KMT controlled a larger area of China, the result of the war is almost determined, since CCP had better control of the Northeast (Manchuria) which had at the time more than 80% of heavy industry of mainland China. As one knows, modern wars rely largely on the amount of heavy industry production which manufactures weapons and ammunition for the war. Furthermore, Chinese people in Manchuria are almost all immigrant from internal provinces since late 19 century and therefore easier to be mobilized for a war (in motivating the farmers in Manchuria CCP is far more better than KMT, that is key point. CCPmanaged to appoint many local Manchuria people to work for them in the government, but KMT just sent some bureaucrat from south part of China who are not familiar with Manchuria.) Lacking of economic supplies, the area and military of KMT in Manchuria soon got shrinked and isolated in several big cities like Shenyang and Changchun and could not escape and finally surrendered) Then everything is done by CCP easily from Manchuria to the South just like Jin conquered North Song and Qing conquered Ming several hundred years ago.
The music is so deppressive!
I'm perhaps not that bad of a mapper you want a happy song in video about war?
Vladimir Bb Yes. Ot atleast dramatic.
I'm perhaps not that bad of a mapper Because the communist party took over china
its fitting isn't it?
because the communists winning was one of the worst events in human history
Beppe 39 ciao
Before Kuomintang started this war, Kuomintang had more than 5m soldiers, with much superior weapons, air forces, navy from US and better economy. However, Communists only had 1m soldiers (mostly are militiaman) , with terrible supply (1 gun for 3 soldiers) and no air forces and navy at all. Why Communists still won this war? The answer is people chose Communists in that time. No one knows what will happened after communists took over China, but in that time, Kuomintang was as bad as hell.
+Abelard He I think its mostly because the Communists were more trained in guerrilla warfare. Although the Kuomintang controlled a majority of China they were poorly motivated and most people didn't want to fight another war.
Yeah, I think so
MlgM80ThatSm0k3sD3wbi3s Yeah, I think so
That is from one part true, because after ww2 comunist received from USSR tanks, guns, etc.
Because Soviet Union supported Communist China, meanwhile US stopped support Nationalist because US didn't want Nationalist removed the Communist , Actually Nationalist didn't have Better equipment as well, Communist have a shit tons of weapon from Soviet and Imperial Japanese equipment from Captured Manchuria
Fun fact: soviet union supported Kuomintang in the beginning of civil war
@Nazx 36 Well, they didn't want Japan to turn their attention to them, I think. But they would've preferred the communists still, which is why they supported them post WW2.
Yeah, in the beginning, Soviet forces refused to give any military assistance to the minor PLA, and Kuomingtang was also taken up the main cities of Manchuria with the help of US, in short, both CPC and KMT were equally struggled on the land of Manchuria in the 1946.
No, they supported the kmt against the cliques
In the first civil war they supported the United front against the warlords
I liked it before I even watched it. I knew it would be good... and it was.
Could u pick other colours than red and green next time? Makes it very hard to see for colourblind people
Thomaszhh Yeah it would be better to use blue for Kuomintang
+Johnson Brett (DaSoloHan) Or Black, for the Fash feeling
Stop being colorblind
stoopid. just take your glases u dumbaas ashole
red stands for communism
Well, KMT, shoulda woulda coulda.
You don't win, you don't rule, it is that simple.
Regardless of that, amazing video and well-done job!
Thanks.
well... technically kmt never lost. they still have Taiwan today
thegame expert See how Taiwan is ruined now
They just lost Taiwan in a landslide election and might never recover.
Q.M. Care to elaborate?
Actually, people in China have an abysmal standard of living and people in Taiwan are rich and live at the level of Germans or French; much like what happened with North and South Korea; and today, China is, for all intents and purposes, a Capitalist country. Additionally, America and Capitalism won the Cold War while the Soviet Union disintegrated and Socialism caused MILLIONS to die and failed miserably; just as it has failed in every country it has been attempted on, including Cuba, Somalia, Rumania, Venezuela, East Germany, Albania, Yugoslavia, North Korea and many others. INCLUDING CHINA.
I am only here for the music on background. What a great music that is. I always listen it when I am studying for my exams. It improve my concentrate, memory and focus….
Massive, excellent work Emperor :) Thank you!
If one notice, they will see that both the USSR and PRC both were indirectly formed thanks to Japan.
*It all makes sense now*
But what was Japan's role
@@parvchetri0995 They weakened the Kuomintang for about 7 years, and all of their equipment from the Kwantung army were handed to the communists
@@feetlicks Oh ic but why would Japan help communists, didn't Japan hate them?
@@parvchetri0995 The Japanese didn't help them directly, but the Soviets took over Manchuria and the Japanese Army handed over their equipment to the Soviets, and then the Soviets to the Communists
Kuomintang had everything it needs to win this civil war. But it's army's fighting capability in terms of morale and leadership is just not up to part. Gonna admit though, communists have its way of winning wars, the fact they didn't lose the Korean war is just a simple proof.
Also communist destroy the country
The key difference was that KMT didnt have centralized command of its army, leaving it up to "loyal" warlords. Yes Chiang had an elite force trained by Germans but it was destroyed by the Japanese in Nanjing. Wherever Mao went, the main condition was that he got centralized command of the armies, any warlord that offered to join the communists had to give up command of the armies etc. Looking at this map in a strategy video game mindset will make you wonder how KMT lost if they controlled so much more territory. The problem was that most of KMT's territory was controlled by warlords who only cared about defending their "feud", it was near impossible to organize them into a centralized fighting force against communists.
Kmt couldn't win, even if they destroyed PLA communists would start endless guerilla warfare and wait for USSR's aid to arrive.
Well........ I guess the second time Manchuria invaded China.XD
Dino Man *Laugh in Manchu*
Yea the communists appeared like the manchus invading a broken kuomitang (like the Ming Dynasty last years)
@Andre Luis bot here still trying to copy paste lmao😂 how much per comment? 2 cent?
technically the third if you count the japanese invasion
Epic D-Day landings, those soldiers really had epic gamer skills when they landed.
Damn if kuomintang won, China would be ally to US and Korea would be united. Shame
BadMic - James Yeah, but they are a democracy now. And during ww2 China and the US had the same enemy which was Japan that made them allies, and the Nationalists would still hate the communists in Russia which would have continued good sino American relationship.
+jiman kim Since when is China a democracy? From what I know China is still communist.
\//\//\//\//\// \//\//\//\//\// Talking about the Republic of China (Taiwan)
+jiman kim Sorry, I misread it.
The main value of the nation was established on the three principle. Fascism was only introduced temporarily to reduce instability since China was facing threats from Japan and regional warlords.
This is really one of your best videos, probably the most impressive.
Looks so complex.
Can this please be a normal comment section?
With a civil war? No way!
why is KMT Green and not Blue?
Because they are moldy
Why can't KMT be green? *HMMMMM*
In general, Kuomintang colour is white
And this is how the republic of China became the *People's* republic of China
1950 One of the Kuomintang troops retreated to Myanmar and northern Thailand, known as "KMT troops in the Golden Triangle"
My grandma was born in 1948 in civil war
0:44 rip british raj
Just to state my humble opinion: The communist party and Mao surely were terrible but the Kuomintang around Chiang Kai-Shek were equally bad since he planned to create a military dictatorship. And before you state your own opinion like a lot of people already did, please inform yourself about Chinas history from the late 1800s when the british first invaded China to the point where the actual civil war takes place. There are a lots of things to learn before you are actually able to form a valid opinion on this topic.
I have done the research and I think you're wrong. Here's why:
- The Nationalists weren't communists (duh) so they wouldn't have committed the a Great Leap Forward (collectivization) or the Cultural Revolution.
- Taiwan eventually became a democracy, even though Chiang ruled there for decades. It isn't impossible mainland China would have as well.
- Chiang could have been replaced with someone more competent. Mao had a cult of personality that made this impossible.
Plus, the western countries would've been able to communicate and trade well with Kuomintang China as it is not Communists so that means they are not technically an enemy during the Cold War.
captalist chinese lost every war since 1840 first opium war,1860 second opium war,1860 russian invation ,1895 japan invasion,1900 16countries invasion,1911 russian occupation of outer mongolia,and tuva mongolia,1923 britain invasion and occupation of west tibet,1931-1937 japan invasion of north east china.so the capitalist or democracy no longer has the legitimacy to run this country,the people choose mao.for me ,a student study in german, i must say,chair mao is one the top3 greatest man in the history.who self revive china of its glory and make the counry strong and power from many weak fragments.we give the capitalist 100 year to do experiments,but the chinese capitalist can not bulid strong industry,guns,rocket,science,technology,metal production,ship,navy,air force,and atom weapons.only the communists party of china is the qualified one,they got the mandate of heaven and the Gods give them their right to lead this country.
lol "capitalist" China hadn't existed before WW1, learn your history. ;)
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Great Qing did, but not modern china. Modern China was created as a result of the Xinghai rebellion in 1911.
The KMT took the brunt of defending China from Japan, and the CCP swooped in and took advantage of the situation.
What you need to know is that in the early days of the Civil War, the Kuomintang army had four times the number of the Communist Party. The Kuomintang had a large number of American weapons and Japanese equipment, and it also controlled three-quarters of China's population. The Communist Party only has an advantage in popular sentiment and tactics.
Not really the case if you truly look into it. KMT had huge army, some of them are elite veterans equiped with American weapons including tanks, planes, automatic weapons. Weaker KMT troops seized most of the Japanese equipment and they were fully equipped. While the CCP have lower number, less control area, not enough weapon overall. The failure of KMT cannot just be explained by the military failure, because their collapse was built from years of bad ruling.
Next Friday there will be two new videos! June 12th happens to be an anniversary for one of the major events in one of the videos next week. Good luck guessing what they are. :P
***** Sweet 2 video's on my birthday.
zyperman43 Huh. One of those options is correct. Good job. ^^ I won't tell you which one though.
***** wasn't independent tibet a bit smaller than the modern chinese province of tibet? you show it on the map bordering burma, which I don't think it did.
***** Empe first i want to say Nice video take a like from me.2nd i want to say kuomintag it was something as we call the allies of king or something...as the white army in russian civil war ? Or they are the democrats ?
Giannis Papagrigoriou Kuo 國 Min 民 Tang 黨 = Nationalist 國民 Party 黨 = Nationalist Party, somehow they were dictatorship at that time lol
Nice video! Thank you, Tigestar!
1949 was a historical year, behind the vid there r lots of soldiers came to Taiwan with KMT at that time... Lots of soldiers' families died in 1960'-1970' of the cultural revolution
So when those young soldiers finally get home after 38 years(1987)...most of their homelands and families were vanished, parents and siblings died when they were in TW, and with no connection no one knew whether their families were still alive or not. Lots of man knew their parents died when they first went home after 38 years, like my grandpa, left his parents at 17 as a teenager, first time went back home at 57 as a grandfather. Every time he went back home when he visited the cemetery, he bent the knee and cried heavily, cuz he felt guilty he ever had the chance to take care of his parents. It was a tragedy history
Great work! Could you do the Vietnam War?
The Geopolitical Disaster of The 20th century
From a glance it would appear that too much effort and energy was spent holding on to pockets of resistance deep inside Communist held areas. While symbolic, it ultimately exhausted the Chinese government forces and precipitated the quick collapse of their forces elsewhere in the country within the few short months of 1949.
If more effort was placed on consolidating their defences in areas where they still had generally undisputed control from 1945 - 1948 (generally south of the Yangzi River), they could have held out and probably stabilised the lines of control along that river eventually before forcing a diplomatic and political solution.
You forgot put "New era" in the end.
Calm music but it’s creepy :0
KMT spent way too much energy trying to defend encircled pockets in the north instead of withdrawing and focusing on building up the south or even just fortifying the Yangtze River. Mao was a pretty good military leader. But he was ass at ruling a country in peacetime, if he died on the eve of unification and handed it all over to Zhou Enlai the PRC would be way better off than it is today.
But he was not so good at military as Chiang Kai-Shek
@@maximilien9829 Then why he totally destroyed him?
@@ximrade4287 Chiang Kai-Shek was "destroyed" not by THE Mao Zedong, but by the soviet and japanese weapons as well, Mao Zedong captured all China with the Soviet help, meanwhile in 1925 Chiang Kai-Shek became the ruler of China by his own, without the foreign help! And yes, Mao Zedong wasnt a military commander, while his zombie soldiers fought, he was swimming in the vine pool, eating, and f*cking the young 18-20 years old girls!
Гоминьдановец Чан Кайшист How can you be so confident when saying something you don’t know......
@@phouance2673 I've read a lot of books about a chinese civil war in my childhood (true books, not written by the maoists)
You seem to have forgotten that both Mongolia and Tibet were integral parts of the Republic of China. Even today, maps printed in the Republic of China (Taiwan) show this. It's only very recently that the ROC (Taiwan) has started, somewhat unofficially, to drop Mongolia from a few maps.
During the Chinese civil war, was President Truman and many other US political & military leaders aware of the corruption and the unpopularity of the KMT government?
Also did the US tried to provide some aid to the KMT government?
US Government only provide aid to the KMT DURING WW2 when they fought against Japan. But that was basically it. After WW2 in 1946-1950, the US Government were primarily focus on War Reparations & Reconstruction Projects in Europe (especially the case with the split Germanys of East & West Germany) & Asia was practically neglected from 1946-1950. It was not until KMT retreated to Taiwan in 1950 that the US Government started to become aware of Communist spread in Asia that they started to get involved. First with former Imperial Japan in 1950, they saw Communist Buildup & of course the Korean War. That's where they came up with the term "Domino Effect" when they noticed the KMT retreated to Taiwan, combined with Tibet falls, & Korea about to fall to communism.
They were aware. Truman was actually pretty on the fence about supporting the KMT because of the corruption and because many in the United States naively believed the CCP to be communist in name only. If the United States had backed the KMT unconditionally, they probably would have won.
The corruption in the KMT was more a result of post war instability anyhow. It would have been rooted out in time.
Awesome video !
Outer Tibet was annexed and owned by Kuomintang china in 1920s unlike this map shows but great video
Outer Tibet as in Greater Sikang? Yeah that was taken too.
Great as allways
So many fatal mistakes in it. East Tibet was Xikang Province before 1950.
Much of Xikang province including Eastern Kham was controlled by Tibet at the time. Thought UA-cam was illegal in China, 50 cent militia
Gaming in VN lol chinese youtube users are more than american users.
@@hcrdfju4954 it's blocked
Gaming in VN greeting from china.
@@gsacelm7753 UA-cam is blocked in China because they want to raise local competition and alternative. It is not illegal though, and in places like Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, UA-cam isn't blocked. Some hotels, schools, and universities allow access to UA-cam.
Great Video
The Birtain colonist should blamed for the territory controversy between China and India.
@@yizhenji5564 were*
The british always leave a mess behind when they leave a colony
You mean aksai chin?
It's a lot more complicated than that. Simply put, there were no official well defined boundaries before British surveyors.
@@thesportsguy3088 aksai chin and arunachel pradesh
Great job! amazing vid!
could u please do the japan boshin war?
This video has greatly aroused my... objective intellectual curiosity.
It's a shame that a civilization so old has had to bear the cultural strainer of Communism.
Lin Biao and Zhu De both commanded the People's Liberation Army and led their troops to victory in China, forced the Kuomintang to flee the mainland to Taiwan, followed by invasions of Tibet and Xinjiang, then helped the North Korean forces during the war with the capitalist South.
Great job.
Great video, as always, but the music gave me a headache :D
The birth of taiwan
***** nope
chris succee The true China shall be governed by an Emperor, and I true Chinese Dynasty!!!!
juan arias
yeah? and how many of those you got lying around? no monarch today can say hey're a purebred.
chris succee Well, by the way population grows pretty much everyone is descendant from the very first emperors so I guess I nominate myself for such title :P
juan arias that's not how it works. the emperor didnt just jerk his yerk until there were 40 people in the first chinese settlement.
Including the India Pakistan partition was a nice touch
If I could change one thing in modern Chinese history, this would be what I would change.
+IonMapping yes
+IonMapping Why? China is more prosperous than they've ever had been.
+Gavrilo Taiwan is really prosperous as well. China would still have developed if the Nationalists had won, but it would be a democracy instead of an oligarchy, and would have avoided the whole "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution" fiascos.
JurzGarz Exactly my point.
IonMapping breh
It's also a bummer for the KMT. During the Inter War years in the 1930-1940, the KMT did received a lot of equipment from Nazi Germany from that Sino-German Cooperation of 1930-1940 (hence, why you did saw some of the KMT soldiers were wearing Wehrmacht Stalhelms helmets & were using Wehrmacht arms like the Mauser guns). If the German Tiger series tanks were produced in 1930-1940 (instead of the actual years of 1941-1945), then maybe the KMT might acquired some King Tigers, Tiger 1s & Panthers in their tank battalion, which could give the KMT a HUGE ADVTANTAGE over the Imperial Japanese during their war in 1938-1945 & would DEFINITELY be an advantage against the Communist China in 1946-1950.
its true the kmt had better tech from logistics to fire power but it was incredibly corrupt and facist hence why the majority of Chinese turned against them and why hitler endorsed them with wepons and support.
Don't think so, the maintenance was quite high and was extremely specialized, the communists also engaged in guerilla warefare so the tanks would've only seen action in the major cities.
Other warlords are tibet and Mongolia.
Tibet wouldn't be considered a warlord nation. Though their history is complex, they considered themselves an independent nation and did not seek active hostilities. Mongolia was considered independent as well, to the point of having their own independent communist regime.
no. they were warlords having succeeded the Qing. the warlords themselves declared independence too.
Tibet and mongolia forces don't belong to the central military arm of KMT, but they are parts of China then. The PRC and ROC admitted the independence of Mongolia respectly in 1950s and in 2012. So they should be marked purple. The video doesn't include Changdu Campaign and 8-23 campaign
Can you do an Every Hour Video for a Short War?
Like, a War that ended in Six Days?
Like, the Six- Day War?
Theme song make me uncomfortable!!!
It's relaxing and mysterious
Congrats comrade! China were safe from the KMT occupation
After the October Revolution that's the Greatest.
i think that kuomintang army could have crushed the peoples liberation army if they werent so exhausted from the second Sino-Japanese war
before sino-japanese war, KMT almost win the civil war. Xi'an Incident is a mistake of china history.
PLA and KMT reunited become China United to defeat japan. I guess...
Great job, as always. Also, 3 viewers, lol.
Why do you guys hate China? It's a great country today. I like Chinese culture.
kar muts "It's a great country today" lol
Haters are going to hate. That's it . End of the story
+kar muts
If you like Chinese culture, you're sure as hell not gonna find it in China.
If you like Chinese culture, then you'll only love Taiwan... The refugee of the KMT... Oops :/
Sadly the communists destroyed the culture you like in the Cultural Revolution. Relics were smashed, books were burned and intellectuals were tortured.
_We have been gather here for another history reviews_
Taïwan is the best at hidde and seek
Молодец , неплохо постарался 👍
It's really sad to see China at the time to be in a pickle, as both the Communists and the Nationalists were terrible in their own fashion. I mean Chieng-Kai Shek used Press Gangs and kidnapping to recruit more people into the Nationalist Army, and the Nationalists were also authoritarian in nature, so for the Chinese choosing the side of the Commies wasn't a decision they have taken lightly because the Commies would promise land to the peasants whereas the Nationalists would give them back to the Warlords loyal to the Nationalists.
Probably one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century...
l am from Hongkong China,we always support our country China❤
Very nice music.
You are the bestestest tiger in the whole WORLD. You deserve to rule China AND Taiwan, and the rest of the world, too. A thousand praises on you!
Who are you referring to? The Communists? Or the Guomindang?
Theo Buniel
To EmperorTigerStar
They never got Taiwan.
Tibet is strongly buddhist, right?
Fake* Buddhists.
Lucian Willi They aren't buddhists .
You can learn more about the old Esoteric Buddhism (Vajrayana) before the liberation of Tibet. That will be a great shock to you.
Lol commies calming Tibetans aren’t Buddhist while actively destroying Buddhist teachings and texts
You forgot about KMT forces that camped out in Bruma!
where did you get all this info???
+楊欣翰 The magnificent and mysterious Internet, I think.
+Thomas Li
XD
conspiracy.com
Thank you.
If Kuomintang won the war, North Korea would not exist and even Tibet would still be an independent country to this day, and last but not least, Taiwan would still be ruled from Beijing.
The koumintang wanted tibet too you silly
@@nouhowlmao2809 give me some evidence. Also, we won't really for sure since that (if Koumintang won) never happened.
@@Nishkid641 the taiwan constitution was created in 1946 and it already claim the entire kingdom of tibet (and mongolia) considering the ccp didn't take tibet until 1950 its easy to see that they didn't plan on just letting them stay independent had they won
@@nouhowlmao2809 sure sure, but that never happened so whether they actually gonna do it or not, we never know.
@@Nishkid641 if your answer is just "we will never knew what would have happen" then whats even the point of your original comment
Please, make video yugoslavian civil war in 91-95. In croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina :D
*scrolls trough the comments
Wow i guess im not the only who is sad about this
nice job :D
Long live kuo mintang....in once day comunist will collaps
Any chance you'll do the English civil war and what do you use for these?
Another well done product. some comments:1.warlords are not, technically speaking, errors. KMT had relatively weak control over some "cliques". 2. About some kids whining wrong side won the war or china is hell thing, that might be true, but KMT was a lot worse. The main reason they governed TW ok was because they did land reform as they have no connection to local gentry, with properties confiscated from Japan. They could never enact that in China. Chiang Chingguo tried to start some small & mild reformation in Shanghai, look at what happened. Had KMT won, I doubt China would be better now, if not hell. Partially because KMT was way way more corrupted. Whoever thinks KMT was better represents 0.1% of whole population, they forgot peasants are people. 3. Yes Taiwan and HK are better than mainland, and I can see HK has been going down ever since the takeover(Although I personally suspect it has more to do with gradual globalization of china if you look at big picture. Actually, Tw is a perfect example. This country's econ became stagnation ever since it embraced"democracy"). but a lot hker and twnese are just whiners. Nothing wrong with fighting for democracy, if only you can do it in a respectable, reasonable and practical way. Protest all day you want, see if cpc wil eventually bring tanks, or they just dont give a shit and stop giving economical and political privileges( = apply same policies to all other mainland cities, which they are doing right now) and let hk naturally decline and become nothing special eventually 4. youtube is a stupid place anyway, you can believe whatever you want without conducting any research.
Thank you so much for your reasonable and objective comment.
Well you really think Mao's commies weren't corrupted? Stealing military cars for Selling opium during the war ! Make the peasants suffer of famine when they were eating like emperors! Destroying Chinese culture just for keeping power! Saying that the KMT was corrupted is correct but never forget the corruption of the PRC
@Studio Triggly Sadly，they did.
@Studio Triggly Have you heard of the Huayuankou bank's breaking?
890,000 people died. 3,900,000 peole lost their home. Most of them are from Henan ，the place where I was born.
Make a video about the hellenic civil war:every day
If the Kuomintang won, the world would be so much better
I don't see any warlords...
actually, the kuomintang was much smaller. All those western territories like Xinjiang/Sinkiang or Tibet were independent and just partial chinese territories. The republic of china (today taiwan) didnt have control over those western territories.
(i know it coz my grandfathers lived in Xinjiang and flee far away to europe because of the revolution/civil war)
That Was Only In The First Part. By 1946 Kuomintang Had Complete Control Over The Entire Country. Remember There Were 2 Parts, Before And After The Second Sino-Japanese War
“The Chinese Civil War”
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
I say it now I think. First, I don't like Russia, USA and a bit China. That is nothing against the people, it is against the government of these countries. USA tries to command the World, Russia to fight against Ukraine and provoke a 3rd WW. And China is the Country which is between good and bad. I don't hate China as much as the other 2 and they are, compared to other countries not my favorite, but still ok . But I'm not sure if the Kuomintang would have been better. Why couldn't they all be as peaceful and interested in peace as e.g. Europe.
Axel Müller heh Europe is only interested in peace now... they have been the center of global conflict for CENTURIES every global conflict can be traced in some way to rivalries in Europe, Europe is only interested in peace now because they have been wrapped up in wars for centuries
side note: I’m not trying to defend any specific country I’m just trying to say that every country has its faults whether it’s the US, Europe or even Africa no country is even close to perfect
@@connorh2215 sure, they fought enough wars in the past and I it is good that Europe is so peaceful. But, if Europe will again build an Army, it will be twice as high as the chinese army or the American. It seems that Europe is the only country in this world that does not want war. I wish USA and Russia would think the same, especially USA.
You don't know????....
China has already colonized Africa...
Russia is way better than US and China...
@@thesportsguy3088 If you think so
Axel Müller yes I hope actually that Europe the us and other countries decide that building a large army is not worth it instead focusing on finding inner improvements and science for the betterment of humans
Very cool!!
Why did the Kuomintang lose? Because they lost the Mandate of Heaven.
I want to point out that even though we can see the change of frontline on maps, we cannot really tell the significance of the battles that push the line. For example, some key battles took place and caused the destruction or surrender of the several strongest armor spearhead and mechanized troops of KMT. There aren't big changes on the map when those battles take place, the important moves are most of the time almost invisible in the video. Still, it is a nice video to watch, but reading is still the better way to truly understand history if someone is interested.
polish russian wars
You forgot the Chinese annexation of Aksai Chin
A beautiful sight.
Long live the red army! Death to empire!
Death to revisionism!
Awesome.
Tibet is a part of China in laws since Qing，and KMT isn't ruler it actually......
which documents？Qing dynasty claim Tibet as territory. it is british want to grap Tibet and denied it.
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/01/19/101830147.pdf
Tibetans would probably chose the KTM over the commies because the KMT actually respects culture
@RogerwilcoFoxtrot Qing emperor is of Manchu origin so Qing is not a Chinese dynasty?
Are you an idiot?
How many non-Persian dynasties did Iran have?
How many non-Hindu dynasties did India have?
How many non-Anglo dynasties did England have?
So why China is so different?
Hongtaiji declared himself as the Chinese emperor and that's all, needless to mention Tibet itself was conquered by Han Chinese general Yue Zhongqi.
Next time before barking sth non-sense, learn your own history first.
+EmperorTigerstar Will you do the Russian Civil War?
thanks