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 * __Chinese Revolution: __**
 * China's leverage in the Cold War was primarily determined by its enormous size. With the largest population and occupying the third largest territory in the world, China was a factor that neither superpower could ignore.
 * In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when Mao's [Communist leader] China entered a strategic alliance with the Soviet Union, the United States immediately felt seriously threatened.
 * To prevent a Communist revolution in Asia, the United States sent the Nationalists' government $2 billion; to aid beginning in the mid-1940s.
 * Fortunately/Unfortunately, by 1949, the Communist had captured the Chinese capital of Beijing.
 * By August, of 1949, the U.S. State Department, obviously, discontinued aid to the Chinese Nationalists.
 * Con.- in September, the Soviet Union announced had successfully tested the Atomic Bomb.
 * U.S. feared would use it on us, seeing as to they signed a treaty with People's Republican of China.
 * Defeated Nationalists fled to Taiwan.
 * Now that they [Nationalists] were gone, victorious Communists established the People's Republic of China in October of 1949.
 * Even though had fled to Taiwan, was still able to keep a seat thanks to the United States with keeping formal diplomatic relations.
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