The people throughout China have been plunged into bitter suffering and tribulations since the Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi] Kuomintang (Guomindang) reactionary government betrayed the fatherland, colluded with imperialists, and launched the
counter-revolutionary war. Fortunately our people's Liberation Army, backed by the whole nation, has been fighting heroically and
selflessly to defend the territorial sovereignty of our homeland, to protect the people's lives and property, to relieve the people of
their sufferings, and to struggle for their rights, and it eventually wiped out the reactionary troops and overthrew the reactionary
rule of the Nationalist government. Now, the People's War of Liberation has been basically won, and the majority of the people in
the country have been liberated... The Central People's Government Council of the People's Republic of China took office today in
the capital and unanimously made the following decisions: to proclaim the establishment of the Central People's Government of
the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong, Chairman of Central People's Government Sources: Mao Zedong. "Proclamation of the Central
People's Government of the People's Republic of China,"
TASK 1: Explain the historical circumstances (context i. e. events leading up to that caused) Mao Zedong's
"Proclamation of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China."