Answer:
The answer is C. to flee China and Communist rule.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Nationalists and their leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, lost the Chinese civil war to the Communists led by Mao Zedong. They ran to the shelter of the island of Taiwan off the coast of southeastern China. During the 1950s and 1960s, Chiang maintained the hope of organizing an invasion to retake the mainland.