IC #3

Practices of CCW

Kidnapping: Kiang Incident -- example of mistakes by Shek.
-Shek does not fight the Japanese in 1936 - focuses on communists still.
- Goes kidnapped by a warlord Zhang Xuelang
-Communists and Russians help negotiate his release; Shek looks weak, commies look good.
- Chiang Kai Shek promises United Front vs. Japanese, Commies &
fight together vs. Japanese.

Communists occupy areas vacated by Japanese in the 1930s --> Puts the commies in a strong position for after WWII to win their civil war
Destroy All Campaign: "Kill all, burn all, destroy all", aiming to turn the people against the communists in areas which supported them by burning down all their villages and crops, slaughtering their animals, poisoning their wells and murdering their peasants.

1940 - Hundred Regiments Battle
Guerilla warfare
disrupt railways and communications of Japanese
Mistakes by Japanese that Commies took advantage of:
1941 - Japanese "3 All" Campaign, use of terror to turn peasants against commies.