Deng Xiaoping

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promise for land reform. Deng
Xiaoping believed that a Communist government would do a better job of running
the country. During the Nationalist- Communist Civil War, Deng greatly
influenced the outcome in favor of the Communists by using effective military
strategy. Deng Xiaoping was appointed Politcommissar of the 129th Division of
the Eighth Route Army (the Liu-Deng Army) from 1938 to 1947. He employed
several campaigns against the Nationalists in which he inflicted severe damage.
One campaign was when he led his army in the battle of Huaihai, which put
550,000 men of the Kuomintang troops out of action. Afterwards, he led his army
across the Yangtze and liberated Nanjing, the capital of the Kuomintang
government. Then his army liberated the entire southwest of the country.
In October 1, 1949, China became a Communist nation. Without Deng
Xiaoping's tremendous performance during the war, the Nationalists probably
would have easily won. Because of Deng Xiaoping, the ...

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more freedom to grow
crops and more freedom in politics. Mao did not like this and began to feel
paranoid. He believed everyone in the party was against him. As a result, he
launched the Cultural Revolution that led to the downfall of several Chinese
leaders including Deng Xiaoping.
Deng Xiaoping eventually rose back to power (he had two more downfalls
but regained power both times too). He never really opposed Mao again until his
death in 1976. After Mao's death, Deng Xiaoping finally stepped out of Mao's
shadow and attempted to reverse the country's "backwardness."
In April 1976, four months before Mao's death, the Gang of Four led by
Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, a powerful member ...

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