
S3-E14 - The Three “Pearl Harbors” of the Chinese Communist Party - with Ian Easton
The Taiwan History Podcast: Formosa Files
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The First United Front
The first United Front was an alliance to try to end warlordism. Chiang Kai-shek decided that he was going to finish the Communists once and for all. They rounded up Communists, many of whom they had previously collaborated with in the first United Front. And so what happened was that here the Chinese Communist Party, at that time they had an estimated 60,000 members,. many of whom were underground, only 10,000 survived.
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