Chinese Communist Party

The Communist Party of China (CPC), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),Assassin's Creed Templars Volume 1: Black Cross #004 is the Marxist-Leninist party which founded and governs the , a totalitarian state which rules over China in the present day.
In the days of the Warlord Era, the CCP were allied with the Nationalist Party (KMT) which, under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was keen on reunifying the country from its base in southern China. Communists in Shanghai eagerly awaited the forces of the KMT's Northern Expedition, believing that they were the reinforcements needed to capture the city together. Upon their arrival on 12 April 1927, however, the KMT immediately executed an indiscriminate massacre of the communists with the aid of Du Yuesheng's Green Gang notwithstanding. Chiang had orchestrated the slaughter as a preemptive strike against the CCP to signal his definitive severance of their alliance.Assassin's Creed Templars Volume 1: Black Cross The event is traditionally treated as the start of the between the KMT and CCP although the Civil War was in fact the last phase in a prolonged period of armed conflict between factions vying for power with the fall of the Qing dynasty.
After a lull in the civil war during World War II, the CCP achieved victory against the KMT by seizing the entirety of and forcing Chiang Kai-shek to flee with his remaining forces to . Mao Zedong, as Chairman of the CCP, then established the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed Templars Volume 1: Black Cross
==References==
zh:中国共产党
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