Why did two Chinese leaders, Chaing Kai-shek and Mao Zedong unite during World War II?

Question

1.to help form the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
2.to fight the Japanese
3.to defend the Burma Road
4.to set up a pupet state in Manchuria

Answer 1

answer 2 is politically correct.

in reality they did not cooperate. Chang's men fought the japanese in the south- eg defending the Burma road. Mao simply retreated, abandoning Manchuria to the Japanese and collecting the weapons from US supplies for future use- which he did in the 1950's, against Chang. By that time he had also massive supplies from the USSR (men, tanks, guns, planes) while Chang was cut off from US assistance by actions of soviet agents in the US state department. End effect- over 70 milion chinese murdered by Mao after he took power.

Answer 2

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Why did two Chinese leaders, Chaing Kai-shek and Mao Zedong unite during World War II?
1.to help form the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
2.to fight the Japanese
3.to defend the Burma Road
4.to set up a pupet state in Manchuria

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Sorry, none of the above.

Mao Zedong and Chaing Kai Shek never united. In fact all through WWII they were at each others throats. Chaing Kai Chek considered the Chinese communists a greater threat than the Japanese, so the Chinese were fighting a civil war in the midsts of a world war.

The Japanese were essentially ignored while Chaing Kai Shek concentrated on fighting and killing all the Chinese communists, including Mao Tse Tung.

It turned out that Chaing Kai Shek was correct as the Chinese communists eventually kicked out Chaing and took over China. The Japanese were never really a threat to China.

Answer 5

2. To fight the Japanese

The "young Marshall" had to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek and hold him in Xian before Chiang would agree (only in theory) to stop fighting Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party. I think the person who asked the question just wanted a simple answer, and doesn't need the mindless Mao-bashing I see going on here. Get a grip on reality, charlienoble, millions of Chinese die during the Civil War Chiang and his KMT "blueshirts" initiated (and did not do enough to stop the Japanese), as well as the Japanese invasion - and you say "the Japanese never were a threat"??
**You can also call him "Jiang Jie-shi", okay?**

Answer 6

To fight against the Japanese, who had invaded Manchuria in 1931 and China in '37.

None of the other answers even remotely make sense.

Answer 7

2 is the ostensible reason, but the true reason was to soak up all the aid those credulous saps the Americans were promising them if they did 2 - which they didn't more than the absolute minimum.
PS according to the pinyin transliteration, it isn't Chiang-kai shek any more - it's been changed to something quite different.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

To fight the Japanese invasion

Answer 10

# 2 cp scipt "cut off by soviet agents in the state dept" was Joe right?