First United Front

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The First United Front was a short-lived alliance in 1920s China between the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party formed to end warlordism and unify the country.


Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historical event
political alliance
united front
alsoKnownAs First KMT–CCP United Front
KMT–CCP Alliance
conflictWith Chinese warlords
country China
dissolvedBy Shanghai massacre of 1927
purge of communists from the Kuomintang
endTime 1927
followedBy Chinese Civil War
Second United Front
goal end warlordism in China
strengthen resistance to imperialism
unify China
hasCause foreign imperialist pressure on China
fragmentation of China under warlords
historicalPeriod Republic of China (1912–1949)
ideology Chinese nationalism
anti-imperialism
influencedBy Comintern
keyFigure Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Mikhail Borodin
Sun Yat-sen
Zhou Enlai
location Guangzhou
participant Chinese Communist Party
Kuomintang
partOf Chinese Revolution
interwar period
politicalContext post–Qing dynasty fragmentation
rise of nationalist movements in China
precededBy early cooperation between KMT and CCP in 1923
purpose create a unified national army
prepare for Northern Expedition
relatedOrganization Whampoa Military Academy
result growth of the Chinese Communist Party
launch of the Northern Expedition
strengthening of the Kuomintang
temporary reduction of warlord power
significantEvent Northern Expedition (1926–1928)
establishment of Whampoa Military Academy in 1924
startTime 1924
supportedBy Soviet Union

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
First United Front ("KMT–CCP Alliance")
First United Front ("First KMT–CCP United Front")
alsoKnownAs
Whampoa Military Academy
associatedWithEvent
Yang Hucheng ("Chinese Communist Party (as temporary ally)")
associatedWithOrganization
Moscow Sun Yat-sen University ("First United Front between Chinese Communist Party and Kuomintang")
historicalContext
Second United Front
precededBy

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