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At the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became the Chinese theater of [[World War II]], Marshal Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang and obliged him to establish a Second United Front with the CCP. | At the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became the Chinese theater of [[World War II]], Marshal Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang and obliged him to establish a Second United Front with the CCP. | ||
The Japanese, controlling the puppet-state of [[Manchukuo]] and much of China's eastern seaboard, appointed [[Wang Jingwei]] as a Quisling-ruler of the occupied Chinese territories around Nanjing. Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of | The Japanese, controlling the puppet-state of [[Manchukuo]] and much of China's eastern seaboard, appointed [[Wang Jingwei]] as a Quisling-ruler of the occupied Chinese territories around Nanjing. Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of [[Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China|Reorganized National Government]] and led a surprisingly large minority of anti-Chiang/anti-Communist Chinese against his old comrades. He died in 1944, within a year of the end of World War II. | ||
After the defeat of [[Imperial Japan]], the American-sponsored Marshall Mission, an attempt to negotiate a coalition government, failed in 1946. The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the CCP led by Mao Zedong defeating the KMT and declaring the People's Republic of China in 1949. | After the defeat of [[Imperial Japan]], the American-sponsored Marshall Mission, an attempt to negotiate a coalition government, failed in 1946. The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the CCP led by Mao Zedong defeating the KMT and declaring the People's Republic of China in 1949. | ||