However, after Sun died in 1925, the KMT split into left- and right-wing movements.

The CCP itself was still small at the time, having a membership of 300 in 1922 and only 1,500 by 1925. Д¬ommunist members were allowed to join the KMT on an individual basis. CCP members were also present in the academy, and many of them became instructors, including Zhou Enlai, who was made a political instructor. With this aid, Sun raised a dedicated 'army of the party,' with which he hoped to defeat the warlords militarily. They also provided education in many of the techniques for mass mobilization. The Soviets provided the academy with teaching material, organization and equipment, including munitions.

Chiang then became the head of the Whampoa Military Academy that trained the next generation of military leaders. In 1923, Sun sent Chiang Kai-shek, one of his lieutenants for several months of military and political study in Moscow. The CCP, initially a study group, and the KMT jointly formed the First United Front. Comintern agent Mikhail Borodin arrived in 1923 to aid in the reorganization and consolidation of both the CCP and the KMT along the lines of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1923, Sun and Soviet representative Adolph Joffe in Shanghai pledged Soviet assistance to China's unification in the Sun-Joffe Manifesto, a declaration of cooperation among the Comintern, KMT and CCP. After Sun's efforts to obtain aid from Western countries were ignored, he turned to the Soviet Union. The Kuomintang (KMT), led by Sun Yat-sen, created a new government in Guangzhou to rival the warlords who ruled over large swathes of China preventing the formation of a solid central government. Yuan was frustrated in a short-lived attempt to restore monarchy in China, and China fell into power struggle after his death in 1916. ДЇollowing the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the 1911 Revolution, Yuan Shikai assumed the presidency of the newly formed Republic of China. After the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, both tacitly ceased fire in 1979, however, no armistice or peace treaty has ever been signed. Starting in the 1950s, a lasting political and military standoff between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has ensued, with the ROC in Taiwan and the PRC in mainland China both officially claiming to be the legitimate government of all China. The Communists gained control of mainland China and established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the leadership of the Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan. The civil war resumed with the Japanese defeat, and the CCP gained the upper hand in the final phase of the war from 1945 to 1949, generally referred to as the Chinese Communist Revolution. From 1937 to 1945, hostilities were put on hold, and the Second United Front fought the Japanese invasion of China with eventual help from the Allies of World War II. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude: from August 1927 to 1937, the KMT-CCP Alliance collapsed during the Northern Expedition, and the Nationalists controlled most of China.

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China (ROC) and forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lasting intermittently between 19.

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