Chinese Civil War (Eastern Manifest Destiny)

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the KMT (Kuomingtang)-led Republic of China and forces loyal to the DPC (Chinese Democratic Party)-led Chinese republicans. The war started in August 1912 with Chinese warlord Cao Kun's attack on the Beiyang Government, and ended in the surrender of the KMT forces in Nanjing in 1921. Many Chinese nationalist leaders were either tried for war crimes, fled to British Malaya and French Indochina, or were sent to North America to be "reformed".

The war represented the Chinese people's want for a less oppressive government as well as the ideological split as to what a republic is. Many of the DPC officers were defected Nationalists who disagreed with Chiang Kai-shek's policies.

Despite a surrender treaty being signed in Nanjing in January 1922, many veteran KMT officers still believed that their government was rightfully in control of China and the DPC stole it.