Chinese Civil War
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The Chinese Civil War was fought between the government of the Republic of China, led by the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party. Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 unt
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Su Yu at Meng Liang Gu Battle 1947
1945 Chiang Kai shek inspected Chinese soldiers with shoes made of straw
Chiang Kai-shek
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Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was the President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and the head of the Nationalist government from 1925 to
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…and consolidation of both the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang along the lines of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1923, Sun sent Chiang Kai-shek, one of his lieutenants, for several months of military and political study in Moscow. Chiang then became the head of the Whampoa Military Academy that…
Chiang (right) with his mother, Wang Tsai-yu (middle), who holds his son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang's then-wife, Mao Fumei, is seated left (1910)
Chiang in 1907, a student at the Baoding Military Academy
Chiang (top left) with other Chinese classmates in Japan, 1910
Chiang in 1911, an artillery officer in the Imperial Japanese Army