Chinese Civil War (mar 31, 1946 – aug 7, 1950)

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The Chinese civil war broke out as an escalation of hostilities between the nationalist government and the communists after an alliance to fight Japan in the second world war. The nationalists, led by Chaing Kai-shek eventually lost the war and retreated to Taiwan and the communists, led by Mao Zedong, were left in control. The communists allied themselves with the USSR but their communism was different as the revolution had come from the peasant farmers rather than industrial workers and so never entered the Eastern Bloc.

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