Chinese Civil War

1 August 1927 – 26 December 1936 (First phase)

10 August 1945 – 7 December 1949 (Second phase)

Chinese Communist victory

Combatants
Republic of China United States (1947–61)	People's Republic of China Soviet Union

Commanders

The Chinese Civil War was a period of upheaval in the middle 20th century that led to the downfall of Republic of China and to the creation of the People's Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong.

One of the factors that started the civil war was the Shanghai massacre of 1927, Albert Bolden attended this event.^[1]

Timeline

Before Common Era

Prehistory	War of Unification • Human-Isu War • Toba catastrophe • Assassin-Templar War (ongoing)

Ancient history	Battle of Kadesh • Siege of Dapur • Greco-Persian Wars (Battle of Marathon • Battle of Thermopylae • Battle of Salamis) • Peloponnesian War (Battle of Potidaea • Battle of Megara • Battle for the Silver Islands • Battle of Pylos • Battle of Amphipolis) • Plague of Athens • Battle of the Hydaspes • Caesar's Civil War • Alexandrine Civil War (Siege of Alexandria • Battle of the Nile) • Assassination of Julius Caesar • Liberators' civil war (Battle of Philippi) • Last war of the Roman Republic

8th–13th centuries

8th century	Battle of Talas • An Lushan Rebellion

9th century	Unification of Norway (Assault on Kjotve's Fortress) • Viking expansion (Great Heathen Army • Viking Capture of York • Battle of Ashdown • Battle of Bedwyn • Battle of Meretun • Assault on Grantebridge • Assault on Tamworth Fortress • Battle of Chippenham • Siege of Paris)

10th century	Battle of Fýrisvellir

11th century	Siege of Jerusalem

12th century	Siege of Masyaf • Battle of Hattin • Third Crusade (Assault on Masyaf • Siege of Acre • Quest for the Chalice • Defense of Masyaf • Hunt for the Nine • Battle of Arsuf • Retaking of Masyaf)

13th century	Fourth Crusade • First Barons' War • Assassination of Genghis Khan • Decline of the Levantine Assassins • Medieval Inquisition • Fall of Masyaf • Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty (Siege of Diaoyu Castle) • First War of Scottish Independence (English invasion of Scotland • Capture of Berwick)

14th–17th centuries

14th century	Persecution of the Templars • Hundred Years' War (March to Reims • Siege of Orléans • Siege of Paris)

15th century	Renaissance (Ottoman-Venetian War) • 1402 Chinese Assassin purge • Battle of Anghiari • Fall of Constantinople • Defense of Monteriggioni • Assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza • Pazzi conspiracy • Reconquista (Granada War) • Venetian Conspiracy • Battle of Forlì • Mission to Aragon • Age of Discovery • Bonfire of the Vanities • Confrontation in the Vatican

16th century	Siege of Monteriggioni • Liberation of Rome (Skirmish in the Campagna District) • Search for Cesare Borgia • Attack on Valencia • Siege of Viana • Battle of Agnadello • Assassination of Niccolò di Pitigliano • Prince of Anhua rebellion • Attack on Prince Suleiman • Riot at the Harbor of Theodosius • Destruction of the Great Chain • Fight for the Masyaf Keys • Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (Night of Sorrows) • Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (Siege of Cuzco) • Great Rites Controversy • Roman Inquisition • Honnō-ji incident • Battle of Sekigahara

17th century	English Civil War • Great Fire of London • Salem witch trials • Great Recoinage of 1696

18th century

19th–21st centuries

19th century	Napoleonic Wars • Trienio Liberal • First Anglo-Afghan War (1842 retreat from Kabul) • California Gold Rush • Industrial Revolution • Victorian era (Whitechapel murders) • Crimean War (Battle of Balaclava) • American Civil War (1863 New York City draft riots) • Boshin War • Borki train disaster

20th century	Modern times • Tunguska explosion • World War I • Russian Revolution (Shooting of the Romanov family • Kazan Operation) • Red Scare • Palmer Raids • Shanghai massacre of 1927 • Spanish Civil War • World War II (The Blitz • Manhattan Project • Yalta Conference) • Philadelphia Project • Chinese Civil War • Cold War (1954 Guatemalan coup d'état • Vietnam War • Assassination of John F. Kennedy • Apollo 11 • 1973 Chilean coup d'état • Iranian Revolution • Dissolution of the Soviet Union)

21st century	Great Purge • War on Terror (Iraq War) • Beagle 2 launch • DIA satellite accident • Deepwater Horizon oil spill • Second Disaster • 2013 Egyptian coup d'état • Resurrection Day • Brexit • COVID-19 pandemic