An overview of the Chinese military intervention into the Korean War and how the Chinese military developed during the Korean War.  Improvements in the Chinese logistic system and the ability to dug tunnels to avoid American firepower.

An account of Tibetan resistance to Chinese control of Tibet.  In 1959 this would led to the Tibetan uprising in which over eighty thousand people would be killed.  The Dai Lai would go into exile in India and form a Tibetan Government in exile.  The biography of the Dai Lai is given.

The Chinese Communists saw Tibet as part of China.  Talks between the Chinese and Tibetan Government failed to reach an agreement.  The People's Liberation Army defeats a Tibetan Army led by Ngapoi, who would become an ally of the Chinese as they took control of Tibet, his biography up to 1954. is given.

The Chinese Communists overrun the Nationalists in Southern Chain and capture the island Hainan.  They then defeat the warlords in Northern Western China.  The Nationalist flee to Taiwan where Chiang Kai-Shek regains power.  In the United States the Republicans blame President Truman and his secretary of state George Marshall for the lost of China.  

Chiang Kai - Shek is removed from power as Nationalist leader. Stalin suggest a cease fire but the Chinese Communists reject it.  A British warship is trapped by Communist artillery in the River Yangtze River.  Communist troops cross the River Yangtze and capture the city of Shanghai.