1933) April 5 Chiang Kai shek, President of the Republic of China (b.

By October, Chiang Kai shek's best armies had been defeated at Shanghai.

Democratization Chiang Ching kuo, Chiang Kai shek's son and successor as the president, began to liberalize the political system in the mid 1980s.

In 1932, the Nationalist government, led by Chiang Kai shek, began preliminary work on plans in the Three Gorges.

In December 1940, Chiang Kai shek demanded that the CPC s New Fourth Army evacuate Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces due to CPC's provocation and harassment of KMT forces in this area.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek deployed his best army to defend Shanghai, but, after three months of fighting, Shanghai fell.

Aftermath Most observers expected Chiang's government to eventually fall in response to a Communist invasion of Taiwan, and the United States initially showed no interest in supporting Chiang's government in its final stand.

In November 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met with Chiang Kai shek in Cairo and then with Joseph Stalin in Tehran.

Ma compared him with the contemporary leader Chiang Kai shek and saw many parallels in the careers and policies of the two men, both of whom he admired.

So he would rather ignore the discontent and anger among Chinese people at his policy of compromise with the Japanese, and ordered KMT Generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng to carry out suppression of the CPC and their provincial forces suffered significant casualties in battles with the Red Army.refOn December 12, 1936, the disgruntled Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng conspired to kidnap Chiang Kai shek and then force him into a truce with the CPC.

Hergé was invited to visit China by Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai shek, who had enjoyed The Blue Lotus , although due to the political situation in Europe, this was not possible.

On 9 June 1938, during the Second Sino Japanese War, Nationalist troops under Chiang Kai Shek broke the levees holding back the river near the village of Huayuankou in Henan, causing what has been called a war induced natural disaster .

Chiang's Northern Expedition of the late 1920s, which directly preceded the new Nationalist government at Nanjing was compared to the unification brought about by Qin Shi Huang.

In 1912, when Jiang Zhiqing was in Japan, he started to use the name Chiang Kai shek (Chinese 蔣介石 Pinyin Wade Giles Chiang Chieh shih) as a pen name for the articles that he published in a Chinese magazine he founded ( Voice of the Army (Chinese 軍聲).

Second Sino Japanese War (1937 1945) During the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria, Chiang Kai shek, who saw the CPC as a greater threat, refused to ally with the CPC to fight against the Imperial Japanese Army.

In the late 1920s, the Kuomintang, under Chiang Kai shek, was able to reunify the country under its own control with a series of deft military and political manoeuvrings, known collectively as the Northern Expedition.

Part of the collection was returned at the end of World War II, but the other part was evacuated to Taiwan in 1948 under orders by Chiang Kai shek, whose Kuomintang was losing the Chinese Civil War.

At the time, China was divided internally between the Communist Party of China (CPC) which was under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the Nationalist government of China, the Kuomintang (KMT) under the leadership of Chiang Kai shek.

In 1949, as a result of the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang led ROC government lost effective control of mainland China and relocated to Taiwan, and the Communist Party led government of the People's Republic of China (PRC), declared on 1 October 1949, took control of mainland China.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai shek, seized control of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party or KMT) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition (1926 1927).