Chinese Civil War
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- Mao and the CCP liberated much of northern China from the Japanese by 1945
- Chiang was supported by the U.S.
- The U.S. wanted to form a coalition between the two groups (George Marshall)
- Mao led a peasant army - People’s Liberation Army (PLA)