Complex sentence: Following the fall of mainland China to the Chinese communists and the subseqent establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1,1949, the government of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek began withdrawing it's forces from the mainland to Taiwan.
Split into simpler sentences: Following the fall of mainland China to the Chinese communists and the subseqent establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1,1949. The government of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek began withdrawing it's forces from the mainland to Taiwan.