ABSTRACT
The Japan's defeat, the Chinese civil war resumed in full. In the initial post World War II fighting, the United States openly aided General Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces against Mao Zedong's Communists. The Communists had deployed their troops near the end of the civil war in such a way as to anticipate an American military intervention, were it to occur. A Political Consultative Conference first met on January 10 in Chongqing, then held subsequent meetings over the next twenty days that resulted in an agreement to convene a National Assembly on May 5. Mao was a product of Chinese civilization, which was quite distinct from Russian civilization, even if China and the USSR now shared the same form of government. The USSR also allowed KMT military and political delegations into Soviet-occupied areas, which helped the Nationalists Lake over Changchun and Shenyang. The KMT also did not use many northeasterners in key positions; its officials and soldiers were largely southern Chinese.
