Chinese+Civil+War



A Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. The Kuomintang leader, Jiang Jieshi, had been wary of the increasing power of the Chinese Communist Party, and feared a Communist uprising. Because of Jieshi's fear of a Communist Revolution, he launched a violent war against the Communist Party starting around 1927. The intense split of China led imperialist Japan to invade China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War.