Cold+War+The+Chinese+Revolution+and+Korean+War

=Chinese Revolution= =The Cold War spread beyond Europe and into Asia, where China and Korea brought a new attitude toward Japan and sent American troops back into battle in Asia less than five years after World Warr II had ended.= Communist forces were led by Mao Zedong and had been struggling against the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kaishek since the late 1920s. During World War II both sides suspended their war to resist Japanese occupation. With the end of World War II, civil war broke out again. Neither side could win nor agree to a compromise. To prevent communist revolution in Asia, United States sent the Nationalist government $2 billion in aid beginning in the mid-1940s, but the nationalists demolished this advantage through poor military planning and corruption. By 1949, communists captured the Chinese capital of Beijing. The U.S State Department discontinued aid to Chinese Nationalists and the defeated Nationalists then fled to the small island of Taiwan (Formosa). The victorious communists established the People's Republic of China in October 1949. China's fall to communism shocked America and to make matters worse the Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested its first atomic weapon by September 1949. The early 1950s the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union signed a treaty of friendship and alliance. United States kept diplomatic relations with Nationalist Chinese in Taiwan. It used Its veto power in the UN Security Council and allowing the Nationalists to retain their seat.