Chinese Communist Revolution - wikipedia Chinese Communist Revolution hide This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2018 ) This article needs attention from an expert in Chinese Civil War. The specific problem is : Article should be an in depth description of the revolutionary phase of the Chinese Civil War after WWII... WikiProject Chinese Civil War may be able to help recruit an expert. Chinese Communist Revolution 中國 新 民主 主義 革命 第 二 次 國 共 內戰 ( Second Kuomintang - Communist Civil War ) Part of the Chinese Civil War ( since 1927 ) Part of the Cold War ( 1947 -- 1991 ) People 's Liberation Army occupies the Presidential Palace in Nanjing. April, 1949 Date 1945 -- 1950 Location China Result Communist victory and takeover of mainland China People 's Republic of China established in mainland China Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan Belligerents Communist Party Eighth Route Army ( until 1947 ) New Fourth Army ( until 1947 ) Communist militia, etc. People 's Liberation Army ( since 1947 ) People 's Republic of China ( since Oct. 1, 1949 ) Republic of China Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang ) National Revolutionary Army ( until 1947 ) Republic of China Armed Forces ( since 1947 Constitution ) Republic of China on Taiwan ( after 1949 retreat ) Commanders and leaders Chairman Mao Zedong Commander - in - Chief Zhu De President and Director - General Chiang Kai - shek Strength 1,270,000 regulars ( 1945 - 09 ) 2,800,000 regulars ( 1948 - 06 ) 4,000,000 regulars ( 1949 - 06 ) 4,300,000 ( 1946 - 07 ) 3,650,000 ( 1948 - 06 ) 1,490,000 ( 1949 - 06 ) Casualties and losses 250,000 in three campaigns 1.5 million in three campaigns The Chinese Communist Revolution started from 1946, after the end of Second Sino - Japanese War, and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War. It was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party 's drive to power after its founding in 1921. In the Chinese media, this period is known as the War of Liberation ( simplified Chinese : 解放 战争 ; traditional Chinese : 解放 戰爭 ; pinyin : Jiěfàng Zhànzhēng ). Contents 1 Historical background 2 The Civil War, 1945 -- 1949 3 Result 4 See also 5 References 5.1 Citations 5.2 Sources 6 Further reading Historical background Survivors of the Long March coalesce The Communist Party of China was founded in 1921. After a period of slow growth the Communists fell victim in 1927 to a purge by their chief political rival, the Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai - shek. After 1927, the Communists built up local bases throughout the country and continued to hold them until the Long March. During the Japanese invasion and occupation, the Communists built more bases in the Japanese occupied zones and relied on them as headquarters. The Civil War, 1945 -- 1949 The Nationalists had an advantage in both troops and weapons, controlled a much larger territory and population, and enjoyed broad international support. The communists were well established in the north and northwest. The best trained Nationalist troops had been lost in early battles against the better equipped Japanese army and in Burma, while the communists had suffered less severe losses. The Soviet Union, though distrustful, provided aid to the communists, and the United States assisted the Nationalists with hundreds of millions of dollars ' worth of military supplies, as well as airlifting Nationalist troops from central China to Manchuria, an area Chiang Kai - shek saw as strategically vital to retake. Chiang determined to confront the PLA in Manchuria and committed his troops in one decisive battle in the autumn of 1948. The strength of Nationalist troops in July 1946 was 4.3 million, of which 2.2 million were well - trained and ready for country - wide mobile combat. Result On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People 's Republic of China. Chiang Kai - shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops, and about two million Nationalist - sympathizer refugees retreated to the island of Taiwan. After that, resistance to the Communists on the mainland was substantial but scattered, such as in the far south. An attempt to take the Nationalist - controlled island of Kinmen was thwarted in the Battle of Kuningtou. In December 1949 Chiang proclaimed Taipei, Taiwan the temporary capital of the Republic, and continued to assert his government as the sole legitimate authority of all China, while the PRC government continued to call for the unification of all China. The last direct fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces ended with the communist capture of Hainan Island in May 1950, though shelling and guerrilla raids continued for a number of years. In June 1950, the outbreak of the Korean War led the American government to place the United States Seventh Fleet in the Taiwan Strait to prevent either side from attacking the other. See also China portal War portal Cold War portal Communism portal Long March John F. Melby References Citations Jump up ^ Lynch, Michael ( 2010 ). The Chinese Civil War 1945 -- 49. Osprey Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978 - 1 - 84176 - 671 - 3. Jump up ^ Hunt, Michael H. ( 2015 ). The World Transformed 1945 to the present. Oxford University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 937102 - 0. Jump up ^ Patrick Fuliang Shan, `` Local Revolution, Grassroots Mobilization and Wartime Power Shift to the Rise of Communism, '' in Xiaobing Li ( ed. ), Evolution of Power : China 's Struggle, Survival, and Success, Lexington and Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, pp. 3 - 25. Jump up ^ 《 中华 民国 国民 政府 军政 职 官 人物 志 》 ( in Chinese ). p. 374. Jump up ^ 《 国民 革命 与 统一 建设 : 20 世纪 初 孙中山 及 国共 人物 的 奋斗 》 ( in Chinese ). p. 12. Jump up ^ 《 国民 革命 与 黃埔 军校 : 纪念 黃埔 军校 建 校 80 周年 学術 论文 集 》 ( in Chinese ). p. 450. Jump up ^ `` Army Department Teletype conference, ca. June 1950 ''. Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. US Department of Defense. Retrieved 14 April 2015. Sources Franke, W., A Century of Chinese Revolution, 1851 -- 1949 ( Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1970 ). Further reading Blanco, Lucien. Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915 -- 1949. Stanford University Press, 1971. Chapter 1, pages 1 - 26 ( Archive ). -- hosted at CÉRIUM ( Centre d'études et de recherches internationales ) at the Université de Montréal Chinese Civil War Principal belligerents and campaigns Nationalist Party / Republic of China ( National Revolutionary Army → Republic of China Armed Forces ) Communist Party / People 's Republic of China ( Red Army → 8th Route Army, N4A, etc. → People 's Liberation Army ) Pre-1945 Post-1945 Current issues 1924 First United Front 1927 Shanghai massacre Nanchang uprising Autumn Harvest Uprising Guangzhou Uprising 1929 Sino - Soviet conflict 1930 -- 1934 Encirclement Campaigns 1931 -- 1934 Chinese Soviet Republic 1933 -- 1934 Fujian People 's Government 1934 -- 1936 Long March 1936 Xi'an Incident 1937 -- 1946 Second United Front 1945 Chongqing Negotiations 1945 Double Tenth Agreement 1946 Jiaochangkou Incident 1945 -- 1949 Operation Beleaguer 1946 -- 1949 Revolution 1948 SS Kiangya Incident 1948 Liaoshen Campaign 1948 -- 1949 Huaihai Campaign 1948 -- 1949 Pingjin Campaign 1949 Taiping Steamer Incident 1949 Yangtze River Crossing Campaign 1950 -- 1958 Kuomintang Islamic insurgency 1950 Hainan Island Campaign 1950 Wanshan Archipelago Campaign 1950 Battle of Chamdo 1951 Incorporation of Tibet 1955 First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis ( Jinmen Crisis ) 1960 -- 1961 China -- Burma border Third Taiwan Strait Crisis 2005 -- present Pan-Blue visits Political status of Taiwan Tibetan Government - in - Exile Chinese unification Hong Kong independence movement Inner Mongolian independence movement Manchurian independence movement Taiwan independence movement Tibetan independence movement East Turkestan independence movement Cross-Strait relations Maoism Basic concepts Marxism -- Leninism Marxism -- Leninism -- Maoism Antagonistic contradiction One Divides Into Two Mass line People 's war New Democracy Cultural Revolution Revolutionary base area Three Worlds Theory Anti-revisionism Key figures Mao Zedong Akram Yari Chen Boda Abimael Guzmán İbrahim Kaypakkaya Lin Biao Charu Majumdar Siraj Sikder Pierre Mulele Huey P. 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Question: when did the chinese communist revolution start and end
Answer: 1945–1950