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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. 1927–1949 civil war in China For other uses, see Chinese Civil War (disambiguation). Chinese Civil War Part of the interwar period, the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Cold War Clockwise from top left: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping National Revolutionary Army troops ...
The Kuomintang (KMT), [I] also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), [13] the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) [1] the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), [2] or the National People's Party of China, [14] is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
Map showing the communist-controlled Soviet Zones of China between 1929 and 1935. These areas were re-controlled by the Nationalist government after 1934. On 7 November 1931, the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution, with the help of the Soviet Union , a National Soviet People's Delegates Conference took place in Ruijin ...
In 1932, China for the first time sent teams to the Olympic Games. War Declaration against Japan by the Chongqing Nationalist Government on 9 December 1941. The Nationalists faced a new challenge with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, with hostilities continuing through the Second Sino-Japanese War, part of World War II, from
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a CCP victory and control of mainland China in the Chinese Communist Revolution. [1] [2]
During the Cold War, the Republic of China was known as Free China [12] while the People's Republic of China on the mainland China was known as Red China [13] or Communist China in the West, to mark the ideological difference between the Free World and Communist Socialist World. The Republic of China government also actively supported anti ...
The Communist Party was near the end of a brutal civil war with the nationalist Kuomintang party and not making new enemies was a matter of survival, said Deng Yuwen, an expert in party politics ...
Communist soldiers wait in trenches during the Campaign to Defend Siping, 1946. By the time that Nationalist units had been able to arrive in the major cities of northeastern China, Communist forces commanded by Lin Biao were already in firm control of most of the countryside and surrounding areas, including the city of Jinzhou. [210]