# List of wars involving the Republic of China

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of China.

## Wars involving the Republic of China

    ROC military victory
    ROC military defeat
    Indecisive or unclear outcome
    Ongoing conflict
| War | Republic of China and allies | Opponents | Result |
| Xinhai Revolution (1911–1912) | Revolutionaries Tongmenghui (the predecessor of the KMT) Chinese Republicans Hubei Military Government Gelaohui Tiandihui Han Chinese nationalists Various other revolutionary groups and forces Regional officials and warlords Mongols Tibetan people | Empire of China  Qing Dynasty Armed Forces Beiyang Army Monarchists Royalist Party Manchurian nationalists | Victory Abdication of the Xuantong Emperor Puyi Fall of the Qing dynasty End of Imperial China Establishment of the Republic of China Destabilization of China De facto independence of Outer Mongolia and Tibet (until 1951) |
| National Protection War (1915–1916) | Republic of China | Empire of China | Victory Abdication of Yuan Shikai Fall of the Empire of China Start of the Warlord Era |
| Manchu Restoration (1917) | China Fengtian Clique Anhui Clique Zhili Clique | Restored Qing Imperial Government Royalist Party | Victory General Zhang Xun's army seized Beijing Briefly reinstallation of the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, Puyi, to the throne Restoration quickly reversed by Republican troops |
| World War I (1917–1918) | France United Kingdom Russia United States Italy Japan China Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Montenegro Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil | Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria | Victory End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations |
| Russian Civil War (1918–1920) | White Movement France United Kingdom United States Italy Japan China Canada Australia India South Africa Serbia Romania Greece Czechoslovakia Poland Estonia | Russian SFSR Far Eastern Republic Latvian SSR Ukrainian SSR Commune of Estonia Mongolian Communists | Withdrawal Allied withdrawal from Russia Bolshevik victory over White Army |
| Occupation of Mongolia (1919–1921) | China | Bogd Khanate of Mongolia Buryat-Mongolia White Movement | Withdrawal Mongolia occupied by China until 1921 when the Mongolian Revolution of 1921 occurred |
| Northern Expedition (1926–1928) | Beiyang Government National Pacification Army Fengtian Clique Zhili Clique | Nationalist Government National Revolutionary Army Kuomintang Chinese Communist Party | Beiyang Defeat KMT and CCP form the First United Front in 1924 Nationalist government rules over the entirety of the Republic of China Overthrow of the Beiyang government Nanjing–Wuhan split Beginning of the Chinese Civil War |
| Chinese Civil War (first phase) (1927–1936) | Republic of China Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army | Chinese Communist Party Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Chinese Soviet Republic Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet Fujian People's Government | Ceasefire Fighting suspended due to the war with Japan and World War II KMT and CCP form the Second United Front in 1937 |
| Sino-Soviet Conflict (1929) | China | Soviet Union | Defeat Provisions of 1924 agreement upheld |
| Sino-Tibetan War (1930–1932) | China | Tibet | Victory Tibetan invasion repulsed Eastern Xikang falls under Chinese control |
| Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (1931–1932) | China | Japan | Defeat Tanggu Truce Establishment of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo |
| Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang (1934) | China | Soviet Union | Victory Xinjiang divided in two Sheng Shicai fails to take over all of Xinjiang |
| Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang (1937) | China | Xinjiang Soviet Union | Defeat Establishment of the rule of Sheng Shicai's regime over the whole territory of Xinjiang province |
| Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) | China | Japan | Victory Merged into World War II Chinese victory as part of the Allied victory in the Pacific War Surrender of all Japanese forces in mainland China (excluding Manchuria), Formosa and French Indochina north of 16° north to China China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council Resumption of the Chinese Civil War |
| World War II (1939–1945) | United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Philippines British Malaya | Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Slovakia Croatia Finland Thailand Manchukuo Mengjiang | Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War |
| Chinese Civil War (second phase) (1945–1949) | Republic of China Kuomintang ROC Armed Forces | Chinese Communist Party Pre-PLA troops and militia People's Liberation Army | Defeat Chinese Communist Party takeover of mainland China and Hainan People's Republic of China established in mainland China Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan |