oct 1, 1949 - China falls to the Communists

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After many years of civil war, in 1949, Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China, a Communist regime in the country. The country had been weakened both by WWII and by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the 1930s, which allowed for this overturning of government to be successful.

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