Summary.
Chiang Kai-Sek took over as leader of the Kuomintang after Sun Yat Sens death in 1925, attempted to rid China of all communists causing Mao and many others to flee.
Chiang Kai-Shek
- Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975)
- A political and military leader of 20th century China
- Influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT)
- A close ally of Sun Yat-sen
- Took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925
- 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country
- Led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative
- Rejected western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism
- Under Chiang's leadership, the Nationalists fought a nation-wide civil war against the Communist Party of China
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