The civil war carried on intermittently until the two sides were forced to form a temporary Second United Front in 1936 to resist the invasion of Manchuria by Japan. The war represented an ideological split between the Western-supported Nationalist KMT, and the Soviet-supported CPC. The war began in 1927, after the Northern Expedition. The Chinese Civil War (Traditional Chinese: 國共內戰 Simplified Chinese: 国共内战 pinyin: Guógòng Neìzhàn literally " Nationalist-Communist Civil War") or (Chinese: 解放战争 pinyin: Jiefang Zhanzheng literally " Revolutionary War"), which lasted from April 1927 to May 1950, was a war in China between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Chinese Communist Party (CPC). ![]() Republic of China (ROC) retreats to Taiwan, while the People's Republic of China (PRC) is established ![]() Soldiers of the victorious People's Liberation Army enter Beijing in June 1949.įull scale fighting lasted from April 1927 to December 1936, and clashes from January 1941 resuming full conflict from August 1945 to May 1950 war declared over by the ROC in 1991 no legal document has been signed to end the war, technically continuing from 1927 until todayĬommunist victory. A Communist leader addressing Long March survivors.
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