The Long March (In Our Time)
1934 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a foundation story for China as it was reshaped under Mao Zedong. In October 1934, around ninety thousand soldiers of the Red Army broke out of a siege in Jiangxi in the south east of the country, hoping to find a place to regroup and rebuild.
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Around 1934
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)