Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,
A) Chiang Kai-shek finally obtained a firm grip on all but northwest China, and implemented a "crash program" of modernization, which won peasant support.
B) the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power in the north until, by 1945, between twenty and thirty million people were under their control.
C) Japan made peace with Chiang in 1940, joining him in a war against Mao's Communists.
D) Mao Zedong married Chiang's daughter, which reunited China until the late 1950s.
E) the Chinese Communist party changed its focus from organizing peasants to winning over the middle-class city dwellers and the large bankers in Shanghai.

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During this time period, the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power in the north, winning the support of peasants and gaining control over a large population. The other options given are not accurate.

Between the Mid-1930s and the End of World War II