Chinese communist revolution

Chinese communist revolution

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong, theleader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The declaration brought to end the costly civil war between the CCP and the National Party or Kuomintang (KMT), which began immediately after the WWII and there had been on and off conflict between the parties since the 1920’s. The formation of PRC helped to end the long governmental turmoil in China which started with the Chinese Revolution in 1911. As the mainland China fell to the communists in 1949, the US suspended all diplomatic relations with PRC for several decades