Communist China Roots Of Madness Reel-4

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R4:00:33:23;19

Japan attacks Manchuria September 18, 1931 and the soldiers of Chang Hsueh-liang cannot stop the Japanese Army and Chiang Kai-shek cannot send help. By Spring of 1932 the Japanese controlled all of Manchuria and renames it Manchukuo. Shows the outrage of the Chinese people, but Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang knows the National Government of The Republic of China does not have modern tanks, artillery and planes to fight the Japanese. Brief images of the antiquated aircrafts in Chiang Kai-shek army. Several scenes of Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang. In addition, the Chinese Communist that Chiang Kai-shek thought was eradicated had returned as a major force again.

R4:00:34:59;09

Mao Tse-tung leader of the communist movement in China decided the key to a revolution lay with the peasants that lived in bleak, filthy villages and was treated poorly by landlords. Scenes of peasant villages. Show worker plowing a field with an oxen, another scene of peasants pulling a wooden plow.

R4:00:36:09;22

Chiang Kai-shek insisted he cannot fight the Japanese until the enemy within, the Communist, were destroyed. From 1930 until 1935 Chiang Kai-shek drove his Nationalist Army to fight the Communist peasants of Mao-Tse-tung. Scenes of the ground and air war against communist guerrillas as villages are bombed. Shows planes being armed, in-flight, and bombing villages of Communist guerrillas Chinese Communists forces, facing defeat, retreated on what became known in history as the Long March. Animated map shows the route of the “Long March” (October 1934-October 1935) as Mao-Tse-tung's Communist Army of peasants evaded the pursuit of the Nationalist Army under Chiang Kai-shek and fled to Yan'an that became the capital of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

R4:00:39:03;04

In 1936 Mao Tse-tung changed his tactics and calls for the end of the civil war and a united front against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek resisted and in December 1936 Chiang Kai-shek flew to the city of Xi'an to see Chang Hsueh-liang (Zhang Xueliang or The Young Marshall) to encourage him to continue the fight against the Communist. This trip led to the “Xi'an Incident” an important turning point in Chinese history. On 12 December 1936, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang, was arrested by Chang Hsueh-liang (Zhang Xueliang or The Young Marshall), former warlord of Manchuria and Commander of the North Eastern Army who had fought against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. This incident led to a truce between the Nationalists and the Communists so as to form a united front against Japan. Christmas 1936 shows Ford tri-motor plane landing at Nanking with President Chiang Kai-shek after the “Xi'an Incident”. Chiang Kai-shek announced the army of the National Government of The Republic of China and the Communist army of Mao Tse-tung would unite to fight the Armies of Japan.

R4:00:42:10;22

July 1937 scene and sound of air raid siren as Japanese planes bomb Shanghai. Scenes of civilians running for cover. Ships of the Japanese Imperial Navy shells Shanghai. Scenes of burning buildings and boats and widespread destruction. Shows Japanese soldiers racing through the streets of Shanghai. Madam Chiang announces the attack on China by Japan, scenes of the horror of war. Shows a Japanese flag waving in the breeze over Shanghai, Nanking is sacked and raped. Shows the destruction of Chinese cities as the Japanese push up the Yangtze River in the winter and spring of 1938.

R4:00:43:53;08

In the North a different vision of tomorrow's China guides the Communist Party of China (CPC). Scenes of the village of Yan'an, Capital of the CPC in China. Their troops are called the Eighth Route Army (8th Route Army), but the united front to fight the Japanese dissolves as Communist generals ignore orders from Chiang Kai-shek. Their strategy is to make an independent war against Japan.