Stalin urgently cables warning the CCP not to start a civil war
Stalin sent two urgent telegrams, warning that the CCP starting a civil war immediately after the end of the Anti-Japanese War would be national self-destruction.
Stalin sent two urgent telegrams, warning that the CCP starting a civil war immediately after the end of the Anti-Japanese War would be national self-destruction.
Japan announced its surrender, and World War II came to an end accordingly.
The United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 70,000 people.
The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in approximately 140,000 deaths.
At the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Liu Shaoqi delivered a report on revising the Party Constitution, writing Mao Zedong Thought into the constitution. Following the congress, he officially became the number two leader within the party.
In "On Coalition Government," Mao Zedong proposed that a one-party government should not be implemented during the New Democracy stage, and that this stage would last a considerable length of time.
After the end of World War II, the United States and its allies helped Germany and Japan dismantle their militarist systems, rebuild their national institutions, and restore their economies, turning them into prosperous democratic nations.
Under Stalin's heavy pressure, Mao Zedong was forced to go to Chongqing to negotiate with the Kuomintang.
The period from 1945 to 1991 was the Cold War, an era of confrontation between communism and capitalism, and between one-party dictatorship and pluralist political ideologies, occurring mainly between the Soviet Union and the United States.