Answer to Question #241901 in History for clem

Question

‘The Kuomintang’s failure to establish effective government throughout China during the 1930s was caused by poor leadership.’ How far do you agree? 

Answer 1

I strongly agree, The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1951 because of differences in thinking between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT, or Chinese Nationalist Party). The war was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. China's presidents did not have enough power. Nationalists attacked the republican government. China's presidents did not have enough power. After Sun's death, the party was dominated from 1927 to 1975 by Chiang Kai-shek. Though the KMT lost the civil war with the Communist Party of China in 1949, the party took control of Taiwan and remains a major political party of the Republic of China based in Taiwan. However the KMT failed to achieve complete control. The poor leadership did not help control the differences.