Chinese Civil War

Table columns:
Date
Location
Result
Territorial changes
1927–36  Republic of China  Kuomintang  National Revolutionary Army
1947–49  Republic of China  Kuomintang  Republic of China Armed Forces Supported by:  United States
1949–61  Republic of China  Republic of China Armed Forces  Nationalist loyalist guerrillas, militias and regular troops left in Mainland China and Burma Supported by:  United States
Chiang Kai-shek[show] Bai Chongxi Chen Cheng Li Zongren Yan Xishan He Yingqin Hu Zongnan Gu Zhutong Wei Lihuang Du Yuming Sun Li-jen Fu Zuoyi Liu Chih Xue Yue Wang Yaowu Tang Enbo Huang Baitao † Zhang Lingfu † Zhang Xueliang Feng Yuxiang (Until 1930)
4,300,000 (June 1946)[4][5] 3,650,000 (June 1948) 1,490,000 (June 1949)
c. 1.5 million (1948–49)[6]

Table rows:
cells: Chinese Civil War 國共內戰 (Kuomintang-Communist Civil War)
Part of Cross-Strait conflict and Cold War (from 1947)
Clockwise from the top: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping, Muslim soldiers of the NRA, Mao Zedong in the 1930s, Chiang Kai-shek inspecting soldiers, CCP general Su Yu investigating the front field shortly before the Menglianggu Campaign
Date 1 August 1927[1] – 22 December 1936[2]  (9 years, 4 months and 3 weeks) 31 March 1946 – 7 August 1950[a]  (4 years, 4 months and 1 week) (Kuomintang Islamic insurgency aganist the People's Republic of China's rule continued in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Yunnan until 1958) Location China Result Chinese Communist victory Major combat ended, but no armistice or peace treaty signed Small pockets of insurgency continued through the 1960s Territorial changes Communist Party of China takeover of mainland China and Hainan People's Republic of China established in mainland China Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan
1 August 1927[1] – 22 December 1936[2]  (9 years, 4 months and 3 weeks) 31 March 1946 – 7 August 1950[a]  (4 years, 4 months and 1 week) (Kuomintang Islamic insurgency aganist the People's Republic of China's rule continued in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Yunnan until 1958)
China
Chinese Communist victory Major combat ended, but no armistice or peace treaty signed Small pockets of insurgency continued through the 1960s
Communist Party of China takeover of mainland China and Hainan People's Republic of China established in mainland China Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan
Belligerents
1927–36  Communist Party  Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army  Chinese Soviet Republic (1931–37)  Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet (1931–34)  Fujian People's Government (1933–34) Supported by:  Soviet Union  Communist International
1946–49  Communist Party Pre-PLA troops and militia  People's Liberation Army  East Turkestan Republic (1944–46) Ili National Army Supported by:  Soviet Union
1949–61  People's Republic of China  People's Liberation Army Supported by:  Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Mao Zedong[show] Zhu De Peng Dehuai Zhou Enlai Lin Biao Liu Bocheng He Long Chen Yi Luo Ronghuan Xu Xiangqian Nie Rongzhen Ye Jianying Deng Xiaoping Su Yu Chen Geng Wang Jiaxiang Ye Ting † Bo Gu † Li De Zhang Guotao (Until 1936)
Strength
1,200,000 (July 1945)[5] 2,800,000 (June 1948) 4,000,000 (June 1949)
Casualties and losses
c. 250,000 (1948–49)[6]
1945–49: c. 6 million (including civilians)[6] 1928–37: c. 7 million (including civilians) [7] 1945–49: c. 2.5 million (including civilians) [8] c. 8 million casualties total

Questions about this table:
originalText: who did the us back up in chinas civil war
answer: answerTexts: Republic of China