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 so that by 1945 up to 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 period, the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong, indeed expanded their influence and control over large areas of China, capitalizing on the weaknesses of the Nationalist government and the turmoil caused by the Japanese invasion.

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