Chinese Civil War (early phase)

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civil war phase military conflict

The early phase of the Chinese Civil War was a protracted conflict in the 1920s–1930s between the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party that shaped the political and military landscape of Republican-era China before the Second World War.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil war phase → military conflict →
conflictBetween	Chinese Communist Party → Kuomintang →
followedBy	Second Sino-Japanese War →
hasAlternativeName	First phase of the Chinese Civil War → KMT–CCP conflict (1927–1937) →
hasCause	Shanghai massacre of 1927 → breakdown of First United Front →
hasCommander	Chiang Kai-shek → He Long → Mao Zedong → Peng Dehuai → Zhang Xueliang → Zhou Enlai → Zhu De →
hasEndTime	1937 →
hasForeignInvolvement	Comintern → Germany → Japan → Soviet Union →
hasIdeologicalConflict	Chinese communism → Chinese nationalism → anti-imperialism →
hasKeyEvent	Autumn Harvest Uprising → Encirclement campaigns against Jiangxi Soviet → Guangzhou Uprising → Long March → Nanchang Uprising → Shanghai massacre of 1927 → Xi'an Incident →
hasMainTheater	mainland China →
hasMajorBattle	Battle of Wuhan (political context and purges) → Battle of Xiang River → Encirclement campaigns in Jiangxi → Luding Bridge battle →
hasOutcome	formation of Second United Front → relocation of CCP base to Yan'an → survival of Chinese Communist Party → temporary KMT–CCP alliance against Japan →
hasParticipant	Chinese Red Army → National Revolutionary Army →
hasPoliticalContext	Nanjing decade → Republican era in China →
hasResultingChange	consolidation of KMT central government in Nanjing → strengthening of CCP rural base areas →
hasStartTime	1927 →
locatedIn	China → Republic of China →
partOf	Chinese Civil War →
precededBy	Northern Expedition →

Referenced by (35)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Chiang Wei-kuo ("Chinese Civil War") → Guangzhou Uprising ("Kuomintang–Communist split") → He Yingqin ("Chinese Civil War") → Kuomintang ("Chinese Civil War") → Lin Biao ("Chinese Civil War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Chinese Civil War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Chinese Civil War") → New Fourth Army ("Chinese Civil War") → Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region ("Chinese Civil War") → Xue Yue ("Chinese Civil War") → Zhang Zhizhong ("Chinese Civil War") →	conflict
Chinese Revolution ("Chinese Civil War") → Chinese Revolution ("Long March") → Interwar period →	hasPart
Chiang Kai-shek ("Chinese Civil War") → Zhang Xueliang ("Chinese Civil War (pre–Second United Front phase)") → Zhu De ("Chinese Civil War") →	participantIn
Chinese Communist Party ("Chinese Civil War") → He Zizhen ("Chinese Civil War") → Peng Dehuai ("Nanchang Uprising (indirectly associated with early CCP military actions)") →	participatedIn
Chinese Civil War (early phase) ("Chinese Civil War") → Northern Expedition ("Chinese reunification wars") → War of Liberation ("Chinese Civil War") →	partOf
Chinese Civil War (early phase) ("First phase of the Chinese Civil War") → Chinese Civil War (early phase) ("KMT–CCP conflict (1927–1937)") →	hasAlternativeName
Feng Yuxiang ("Chinese Warlord Era") → Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region ("Chinese Civil War") →	historicalPeriod
Kuomintang ("Chinese Civil War") → National Revolutionary Army ("Chinese Civil War") →	significantEvent
Chinese peasantry ("Chinese Civil War") →	associatedEvent
People's Liberation Army ("Chinese Civil War") →	engagedIn
Northern Expedition ("Chinese Civil War") →	followedBy
He Yingqin ("Nationalist Government in Nanjing") →	government
China Theater ("Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party rivalry") →	politicalContext
War of Liberation ("Chinese Civil War (1927–1937 phase)") →	precededBy