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Name: Chinese Civil War
Type: Event
Start: 1927
End: 1953
Children: First Phase (Chinese Civil War), Ili Rebellion, Second Phase (Chinese Civil War), War in Xinjiang
Chinese Civil War: All Data
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Was a civil war fought in China between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. The war continued intermittently for more than twenty years, and overlappes with the Second Sino-Japanese War that started in 1937 with the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The Communists gained control of mainland China and established the People's Republic of China in 1949, forcing the leadership of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan.