Question: who led nationalist forces during chinas civil war
Answer: 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 -- 22 December 1936 ( 9 years , 4 months and 3 weeks ) 31 March 1946 -- 7 August 1950 ( 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