Chinese Civil War (Nihon no heiwa)

Chinese Civil War
Nationalist soldiers during the Yangtze offensive
Date 1 August 1927 – 29 July 1933 (5 years, 11 months and 4 weeks) Place China Result Nationalist victory Purge of remaining communist sympathisers Beginning of Nationalist campaigns to reunify Chian
Belligerents
China Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army Supported by: Germany Japan	Chinese Communist Party Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Chinese Soviet Republic (1931–1933) Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet (1931–1933) Supported by: Soviet Union Communist International

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), lasting from 1927 until the Communist Party's collapse in 1934.

Prior to the outbreak of the civil war, the Nationalists allied itself with the communists against the Beiyang government in the Northern Expedition. However, the nationalists soon turned against the communists, resulting in the outbreak of the major civil war that would ensue. The more-powerful nationalist forces had many successes in the beginning, but ultimately failed to secure a quick victory as expected.

In 1931, the Communist Party established the Chinese Soviet Republic, with its capital in Ruijin - they also established a military base in the area, From February 1932, the nationalists unleashed a new offensive towards the Chinese communists along the Yangtze river, and when they reached Ruijin in late 1932, a major long battle took place. The majority of communist forces struggled to keep the city from falling, while some troops attempted to retreat to Changsha to establish a new military base only to be captured by prepared nationalist forces. Eventually, Ruijin fell to nationalist forces, and the communist party was forcefully disbanded.