Category: Chinese Communists

East Asia 1928

Jinan Incident

Aided by the Guangxi clique, the Chinese...

Southern Asia 1935

Abyssinia Crisis

In the 1920s, Mussolini’s Fascists had...

East Asia 1938

Battle of Tai'erzhuang

Despite the outcry over the fall of Shanghai...

East Asia 1945

Surrender of Japan's Overseas Forces

At the time of the Japanese surrender, Japan...

East Asia 1946

Reclaiming China

During the war in China, the Communists had...

Russia 1946

Iran Crisis

During the Second World War, Britain and the...

Southern Asia 1946

Independence in the Middle East

During World War II, the French had promised...

East Asia 1947

Indonesian War of Independence

Indonesian nationalists had proclaimed...

East Asia 1949

Communist Victory in Northern China

In China, the uneasy truce between...

China 1949

Crossing the Yangtze

Peace negotiations broke down in April and the...

East Asia 1949

People's Republic of China

In April 1949, the Chinese Communists crossed...

Russia 1949

NATO and the Two Germanys

On April 4, the United States and its European...

North America 1959

Cuban Revolution

In 1952, Colonel Fulgencio Batista seized...

East Asia 1979

Sino-Vietnamese War

The Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule in...

East Asia 1989

End of the Cold War

Despite the communist gains, the 1970s was an...