EE Sample 6: US intervention in the Chinese Civil War
IntroductionThe Chinese Civil War was a conflict between the nationalist forces of the Guomindang (GMD) led by Jiang Jieshi, against the insurgency of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Historian Suzanne Pepper is adamant that the Civil War, and in particular the final phase between 1945 and 1949 became a matter of “American aid preferred and withheld, and of investigations into the motives of those dispensing it”....