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The First United Front (January 26, 1923–April 12, 1927)

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The First United Front (January 26, 1923–April 12, 1927)

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The First United Front of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party was formed in 1924 as an alliance to end warlordism in China.

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The Northern Expedition (9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928)

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The Northern Expedition (9 July 1926 – 29 December 1928)

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The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army of the Kuomintang against the Beiyang government and other regional warlords in 1926.

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The Shanghai Massacre (12 April – 15 April 1927)

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The Shanghai Massacre (12 April – 15 April 1927)

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The Shanghai massacre was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party organizations and leftist elements in Shanghai by forces supporting General Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang.

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The Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931 – February 18, 1932)

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The Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931 – February 18, 1932)

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The Mukden Incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria (September 18, 1931 – February 28, 1932)

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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria (September 18, 1931 – February 28, 1932)

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The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden Incident.

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The New Life Movement (19 February 1934 - October 1, 1949)

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The New Life Movement (19 February 1934 - October 1, 1949)

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The New Life Movement was a government-led civic campaign in the 1930s Republic of China to promote cultural reform and Neo-Confucian social morality and to ultimately unite China under a centralized ideology following the emergence of ideological challenges to the status quo.

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The Long March (16 October 1934 – 22 October 1935)

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The Long March (16 October 1934 – 22 October 1935)

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The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Army of the Chinese Nationalist Party.

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The Second United Front (December 24, 1936 – January 1941)

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The Second United Front (December 24, 1936 – January 1941)

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The Second United Front was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party to resist the Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1945.

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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7–9 July 1937)

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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7–9 July 1937)

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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between China's National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army.

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The term "Two Chinas" refers to the geopolitical situation where two political entities exist under the name "China".

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The Shanghai Campaign (May 12, 1949 – June 2, 1949)

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The Shanghai Campaign (May 12, 1949 – June 2, 1949)

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The Shanghai Campaign was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the Chinese Communist Party for the control of Shanghai, the largest city in China in the latter stage of the Chinese Civil War, and resulted in the city being taken over by the communists, who enjoyed numerical superiority.

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The Proclamation of the People's Republic of China (October 1, 1949)

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The Proclamation of the People's Republic of China (October 1, 1949)

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The founding of the People's Republic of China was formally proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, on October 1, 1949, at 3:00 pm in Tiananmen Square in Peking, now Beijing, the new capital of China.