... first half of the twentieth century. The real reason for Mao's rapid unification of China was the Korean War. When the Chinese Communist revolution spread to Korea, the government there split into two parts, one in the north near China and one in the south. When the United States entered the war and threatened to attack China's industrial base in Manchuria, Mao ordered the Chinese to unite and push back this new imperial threat. The Chinese attacked and drove the American forces south and continued fighting the Americans to a draw. This victory against the Americans did more than anything else to give a good impression of the Communist government in the eyes of the Chinese. Economic Policies China in 1949 was in a bad economic position. The economy had been disrupted by eight years of bloody fighting with the Japanese and then four years of civil war. Inflation made the ...

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