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1.  His father died when he was a child leaving the family in extreme poverty. He was sent to live with relatives but he ran away and joined the provincial army. 2.  Chiang was a good soldier and he was eventually sent to the military academy in Paoting. In 1907,when he was 18 years old, he attended the Military State College in Tokyo. During this period he became a supporter of [| Sun Yat-sen], the leader of the [| Kuomintang] (Nationalist Party). 3. During the 1911 revolution Chiang led a regiment that captured Shanghai. the help of advisers from the [| Soviet Union] the Kuomintang gradually increased its power in China. 5. In 1924 Chiang became head of the Whampoa Military Academy. 6. Chiang eventually emerged as the leader of the Kuomintang. He now carried out a purge that eliminated the communists from the organization. 7. He defeated the communist army and forced the survivors to make the famous [| Long March] to Shensi in North West China. 8. Chiang eventually established a government in Nanjing. Major financial reforms were carried out and the education system and the road transport were both improved. 9. Chiang also established the New Life Movement in 1934 which reasserted traditional Confucian values to combat communist ideas. 10. When the [| Japanese Army] invaded the heartland of China in 1937, Chiang was forced to move his capital from Nanking to Chungking. He lost control of the coastal regions and most of the major cities to Japan. In an effort to beat the Japanese he agreed to collaborate with  [| Mao Zedong]  and his communist army. They took victory over this Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945. It is related to WWII. 11. As soon as the Japanese surrendered, Communist forces began a war against the Nationalists. 12. The communists gradually gained control of the country and on 1st October, 1949,  [| Mao Zedong]  announced the establishment of People's Republic of China. 13.  Chiang and the remnants of his armed forces fled to Formosa (Taiwan). His autobiography, // Summing up at Seventy //, was published in 1957.  Chiang Kai-shek died on 5th April 1975.   (work cited: [| http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWchaing.htm] )
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extra info. he was China's president from 1928 to 1931. The Nationalist Army was ill-trained, ill-equipped, and spread far too thinly. Stilwell thought Chiang was a coward who held back urgently needed resources and changed his mind with irrational speed

|| ||   || Leader: Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jieshi) Biography: Born in Xikou in Fenghua Country, (Oct. 31, 1887) >> His father Chaing Zhaocong died in, Economically got worse (1895) >> Mother Wang Caiyu married with fellow villager (1895) >> Begin military education at the Baoding Military Academy (1906) >> Served in the Imperial Japanese Arm, (1909 - 1911) >> appointed commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy in Canton, where he built up the Nationalist army (1924) >> Sun Yat-sen died (1925) >> He led the suppression of the Chinese Communist Party (1928) >> Chiang agreed to support Communist in order to defeat Japan’s invasion, (1937) >> After defeating Japan’s invasion, civil war broke out between the KMT and the Communists (1946) >> Mao Zedong found People’s Republic of China, Chiang fled to Taiwan and formed separate new country (1949) >> Chiang Kai-shek died (5th April 1975) |||| ||
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