What happened to the nationalists after the civil war?

they were driven out of mainland china.
they centralized their power in major cities.
they gradually lost all power in china.
they revolted against their party leader.

After the Civil War, the Nationalists were driven out of mainland China. This war lasted more than twenty years, between 1927 and 1949. It opposed the Chinese nationalist government, under the control of the Kuomintang party, and the Chinese Communist Party, the Comintern. It was the communists and their leader Mao Zedong who won the war and created the Republic of China.

Before the war, these two groups were allies. They had joined their forces to attack some Chinese soldiers who controlled the North of the country. But, this alliance did not last long because of Chiang Kai-shek as the leader of the nationalists did not like the communists. He realized that this party wanted to take control of the whole country alone.

In March 1927, the communist workers in Shanghai took control of the city, and Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist army attacked them. It was the end of the alliance between the two major Chinese political parties that made war until 1950.

There was still a long pause during this civil war caused by the invasion of Japan in 1931. The war between nationalists and communists continued for another 5 years, but the two parties allied in 1936 and formed a great army to defend from Japan.

At the end of the Second World War, when Japan lost and had to leave China, tensions re-emerged between the Comintern and the Kuomintang. The communists were stronger than the nationalists. They needed only five years to conquer all of China and forced their enemies to exile. The Chinese nationalists escaped and settled permanently in islands around China, such as Taiwan, Hainan, and Taipei.

Subject: History

Chapter: History of China

Keywords: communism in China, Chinese Nationalists, Kuomintang, Comintern

After their eventual defeat in the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalists, under Chiang Kai-Shek, were forced to leave mainland China and settle in the island of Formosa, now Taiwan.

Further Explanation:

Both the Kuomintang, under Chiang Kai-Shek, and the Chinese communists, now under Mao Zedong, were at loggerheads with each other, especially after the death of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in 1925. After his demise, the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party eventually broke off their alliance in 1927, which led to a long civil war between both. This was briefly interrupted in 1937, when Japan, who invaded China a second time after 1931, occupied several regions in China, ruling over them for years with an iron hand. In order to remove this foreign influence from their country, both the Kuomintang and the Chinese communists briefly buried their differences to fight this common enemy.

However, in 1945, Japan was eventually defeated and forced to surrender. This not only signaled the end of World War II, but more importantly, in the context of China, led to the resumption of the civil war between Chiang Kai-Shek and his Kuomintang supporters on the one hand, and the Chinese communists, who were led by Mao Zedong, on the other. This civil war lasted for four more years, eventually ending in 1949, with the defeat of Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang party. They were eventually driven out of mainland China and forced to settle in Formosa Island (now Taiwan), while Mao Zedong established a communist state, officially called the People’s Republic of China, on 1st October 1949.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: Senior School

Subject: History

Chapter: China, Mongolia and Taiwan

Keywords: Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-Shek, Mao Zedong, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Japan, Formosa Island, Taiwan, People’s Republic of China .