What is Long March?
The '''Long March''' is the [[withdrawal (military)|retreat]] of [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Communism|Communists]] in 1934-35. The communists went to their stronghold away from [[Chiang Kai-shek]] and the [[Nationalism|Nationalists]]. Here they were able to join together and start fighting again to beat the Nationalists. They trekked 6,000 miles over 370 days, and only 8,000 survived out of 100,000 people. However, because they had survived such a difficult trial together the survivors were very dedicated and created a more cohesive group. Mao Zedong rose up as a leader during this time. [[File:Map of the Long March 1934-1935-en.svg|thumb|Map of the Long March (1934-35)]] The long march was over 12400 km, in one year. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/event/Long-March|title=Long March|first=|last=|website=|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref> About 300,000 people started, and fewer than 10% finished. They climbed some mountains more than 4000 meters high, == Background == Before the Long March, [[China]] had two sides: the nationalists and the communists. Both sides wanted to rule the country. This brought the [[Chinese Civil War]]. Chinese nationalists used 500,000 soldiers to remove the communists from Jiang Xi.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2002 |title = Encyclopedia of Modern Asia |encyclopedia= asia |publisher= Karen Christensen and David Levinson|location= New York|id=522-520 }} </ref> They failed four times before. Now the nationalists changed the way to attack the communists, using encirclement (make a circle around the enemy army) to stop them from running away. The Communists leader Borgu tried to fight 500,000 soldiers face to face. But the problem is that the Jianxi communists just had 86,000 soldiers and more than half of them just had a broad[[sword]] and no guns. They failed to push the nationalist army back, so they tried to go to meet another communist army in [[Shaanxi]]. == How it changed China’s history == The Long March was an important event in Chinese history. It made the China co