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The Chinese war started in 1927 due to the Chinese communist party (ccp) wanting the government to be a communist government and the Kuomintang (kmt) and the other party wanted a democratic government the war was a fight for legitimacy for the government of China

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Japan’s defeat set off a race between the Nationalists and Communists to control vital resources and population centres in northern China and Manchuria.

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China had endured decades of Japanese occupation and eight years of brutal warfare. Millions had perished in combat, and many millions more had died as a result of starvation or disease. The end of World War II did not mark the end of conflict in China, however.

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The United Front had always been precarious, and it had been tacitly understood by both the Nationalists and Communists that they would cooperate only until Japan had been defeated; until then, neither side could afford to seem to pursue internal aims at the cost of the national struggle.

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The Communists gained control of mainland China and established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the leadership of the Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan.