Event · Twentieth century · China
Chinese Civil War
1927–1949
War between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party, interrupted by the war against Japan, ending in communist victory in 1949.
Facts
- Main span
- 1927–1937, then 1945–1949, with the war against Japan between.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chinese Civil War
- End
- People's Republic proclaimed 1 October 1949. Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan, December 1949.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chinese Civil War
The record
Fighting between the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists, the party Mao came to lead, ran from 1927. It paused in the united front against Japan and resumed in 1945.
The communist victory produced the People's Republic on 1 October 1949. The Nationalist government withdrew to Taiwan in December 1949.
Battlefield deaths and civilian deaths across those years are not given here as one number. No single census covers both phases of the war. The famine and the Cultural Revolution are later, and they have their own pages.
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