Little support could be given except for a single American squadron (Chennault’s famous Flying Tigers) until Pearl Harbor changed it all. With World War Two erupting, the relations were reversed due to the German-Japanese alliance. This was not sufficient against the Japanese.
However, the bulk of Chinese armor consisted of 元 tankettes purchased from Italy, along with a few amphibious Vickers tankettes and a few Vickers 6-ton tanks. The Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945, and the old rivalry bewteen Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintag and the Communist movement led by Mao reappeared.Īt the start of the war with Japan in 1937, the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek had support from the European powers and especially Germany, which sold them various military equipment and weapons, including some armored cars.
After being driven out, the Chinese Soviet Republic started its famous “long march” to the northwest, establishing a guerilla base at Yan’an in the Shaanxi Province around their new leader, Mao Zedong.įrom 1931 on, these two forces would collide until a formal agreement was established in order to try to repel the Japanese Invasion started at Shanghai. By 1934, the opposing force, the Communist Party of China, took refuge in the mountains. After the troubled Era of the Warlords, Sun protégé, Chiang Kai-shek, formed the Kuomintang in the south, rallying most of south and central China in the 1926–1927 campaign. Sun Yat-sen was its first president, but he was forced to give way to the former dynasty army general, Yuan Shikai.
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