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A Brief History of the Civil War in China

In 19 forty nine, communist leader mauzadang's rebellion was succeeding as his forces closed in on the nationalist government of china. Kuman is a small island, just under 60 square miles, but it's the territory of the much larger island of tiwan. Over the last few centuries, tiwan has been invaded and occupied over and over. The dutch took it from imperial chin in the 17 hundreds, and then china took it back. And at the end of world war too, when the united nations forced them to give it back to china.

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