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1927
April
12
The Shanghai massacre
On 12 April 1927 Chiang Kai-shek’s troops and Shanghai gangsters crushed the Communist workers’ militias, starting a purge that ended the alliance with the CCP.
1928
May
28
The founding of the Chinese Red Army
In spring 1928 the forces of Zhu De and Mao Zedong joined up in the Jinggang Mountains, and the CCP leadership decided to call its troops the Red Army.
1934
October
16
The Long March begins
In mid-October 1934 the main forces of the Chinese Red Army crossed the river at Yudu and abandoned Jiangxi. The Long March had begun.
1936
December
12
The Xi’an incident
On 12 December 1936 Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng detained Chiang Kai-shek in Xi’an to force him to end the war with the communists and fight Japan.
24
The Second United Front in China
On 24 December 1936 in Xi’an Chiang Kai-shek promised Zhou Enlai an end to the war on the Communists. The front was formally concluded only in September 1937.
1940
October
04
The Battle of Huangqiao
On 4 October 1940 in central Jiangsu, Han Deqin's Kuomintang troops attacked the communist New Fourth Army at Huangqiao. Within three days they were routed.
1941
January
15
The New Fourth Army incident
In January 1941 Kuomintang troops crushed the Communist New Fourth Army’s headquarters in southern Anhui. Ye Ting was captured; the united front was dead.
1945
August
14
The Sino-Soviet treaty
On 14 August 1945 in Moscow China and the USSR concluded a treaty of friendship and alliance that put into effect the Yalta concessions at China's expense.
19
Communist–Nationalist clashes in China
In August 1945 the Kuomintang and the Communists raced to accept the Japanese surrender. At the end of the month the first clashes broke out in Shanxi.