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Title: In the 1920s, Chinese Nationalists under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek worked to re-unify China Post by: John Smith on Apr 15, 2019 drove surviving communists into the far western part of China, where they regrouped and thrived
brutally suppressed communists, killing thousands invited them to join him in forming a coalition government embraced communist ideology, and began a communist revolution in China Quiz Title: Re: In the 1920s, Chinese Nationalists under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek worked to re-unify ... Post by: sarahlouhigg on Apr 15, 2019 On 6 April 1936, Zhang met with CPC delegate Zhou Enlai to plan the end of the Chinese Civil War. KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek at the time took a non-aggressive position against Japan and considered the communists to be a greater danger to the Republic of China than the Japanese, and his overall strategy was to annihilate the communists before focusing his efforts on the Japanese. He believed that "communism was a cancer while the Japanese represented a superficial wound." However, growing nationalist anger against Japan made this position very unpopular, leading to Zhang's action against Chiang known as the Xi'an incident.
On 12 December 1936, Zhang and Gen. Yang Hucheng kidnapped Chiang and imprisoned him until he agreed to form a united front with the communists against the Japanese invasion. After the negotiations, Chiang agreed to unite with the communists and drive the Japanese out of China. When Chiang was released, Zhang chose to return to the capital with him. However, once they were away from Zhang's loyal troops, Chiang had him put under house arrest. From there he was always watched and lived near the Nationalist capital, wherever it moved to. invited them to join him in forming a coalition government |