• January 1949 -

CCP strong
enough to
launch
• GMD, with more conventional
troops and better attacks
equipment, •Ceasefires worked
forced the to the CCP’s • In April 1949
Communists to advantage, as it the PLA
be on the saved them from a launched
defensive final assault on successful
their headquarters offensives and
• The GMD was
1945 - able to force the 1947- •PLA reverted to took Nanjing. In
CCP out of the
guerrilla strategies
1949 May Shanghai
1947 cities, and in
December 1945
1948 •The PLA attacked
GMD supply routes
and allowed cities
was captured.
In October,
Mao reverted to to fall under GMD Guangzhou fell
his policy of control to the CCP.
creating bases •By March 1948 CCP
outside the • On 1 October
in control of
cities. Manchuria 1949, Mao
• US call for proclaimed the
ceasefires establishment
of the People’s
Republic of
China in
Beijing.