The Long March
- The Long March was a nearly year-long retreat undertaken by the remaining, but dwindling communist forces from the areas around Shanghai, to their last stronghold in the Jiangxi province in northern mountainous China. Of the 90,000 people that initially embarked upon the trip, only 9,000 survived. Communist activist Mao Zedong (seen in the for was the only survivor of the march, placing him in command of the party.