A report on Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist government and Allies of World War II

Land controlled by the Republic of China (1945) shown in dark green; land claimed but uncontrolled shown in light green.

The Allied leaders of the European theatre (left to right): Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943

Sun Yat-sen and Chiang at the 1924 opening ceremonies for the Soviet-funded Whampoa Military Academy

Organisational chart of the KMT regime (1934).

The Allied leaders of the Asian and Pacific Theater: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943

Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1941 by the U.S. Office of War Information

Chiang (right) together with Wang Jingwei (left), 1926

War Declaration against Japan by the Chongqing Nationalist Government on 9 December 1941

Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1943 by the U.S. Office of War Information

Headquarters of the National Government in Nanjing

British Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft (bottom) flying past a German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft (top) during the Battle of Britain in 1940

Chiang during a visit to an air force base in 1945

KMT troops rounding up Communist prisoners for execution

British Crusader tanks during the North African Campaign

Chiang and Soong on the cover of Time magazine, 26 October 1931

British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal under attack from Italian aircraft during the Battle of Cape Spartivento (27 Nov 1940)

Nationalist government of Nanking – nominally ruling over entire China in 1930s

British soldiers of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Elst, Netherlands on 2 March 1945

After the breakout of the Second Sino-Japanese War, The Young Companion featured Chiang on its cover.

Free French forces at the Battle of Bir Hakeim, 1942

Chiang with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Cairo, Egypt, November 1943

FAFL Free French GC II/5 "LaFayette" receiving ex-USAAF Curtiss P-40 fighters at Casablanca, French Morocco

Chiang and his wife Soong Mei-ling sharing a laugh with U.S. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, Burma, April 1942

The French fleet scuttled itself rather than fall into the hands of the Axis after their invasion of Vichy France on 11 November 1942.

The fall of Damascus to the Allies, late June 1941. A car carrying Free French commanders General Georges Catroux and General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme enters the city, escorted by French Circassian cavalry (Gardes Tcherkess).

Chiang with South Korean President Syngman Rhee in 1949

Soviet soldiers and T-34 tanks advancing near Bryansk in 1942

Map of the Chinese Civil War (1946–1950)

Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad

Chiang with Japanese politician Nobusuke Kishi, in 1957

Soviet Il-2 ground attack aircraft attacking German ground forces during the Battle of Kursk, 1943

Chiang presiding over the 1966 Double Ten celebrations

American Douglas SBD Dauntless dive-bomber aircraft attacking the Japanese cruiser Mikuma during the Battle of Midway in June 1942

Chiang with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1960

U.S. Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign in November 1942

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei, Taiwan.

American Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft during the bombing of oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943 during Operation Tidal Wave

U.S. soldiers departing landing craft during the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 known as D-Day

Chinese propaganda poster proclaiming "Long Live the President"

Philippine Scouts at Fort William McKinley firing a 37 mm anti-tank gun in training

Soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army associated with Nationalist China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Chiang Kai-shek and Winston Churchill heads, with Nationalist China flag and Union Jack

Soldiers of the First Workers' and Peasants' Army associated with Communist China, during the Sino-Japanese War

Statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan

Victorious Chinese Communist soldiers holding the flag of the Republic of China during the Hundred Regiments Offensive

Members of the Belgian Resistance with a Canadian soldier in Bruges, September 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt

Chiang Kai-shek with the Muslim General Ma Fushou

Norwegian soldiers on the Narvik front, May 1940

Chiang Kai-shek as Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim

Pilots of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain

Mao Fumei (毛福梅, 1882–1939), who died in the Second Sino-Japanese War during a bombardment, is the mother of his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo

Polish partisan of the Home Army (AK), "Jędrusie" unit, holding a Browning wz.1928 light machine gun

Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 1889–1972), who came to Taiwan and died in Taipei

Partisans and Chetniks escorting captured Germans through Užice, autumn 1941

Chen Jieru (陳潔如, "Jennie", 1906–1971), who lived in Shanghai, but moved to Hong Kong later and died there

Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Winston Churchill in 1944

Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡, 1898–2003), who moved to the United States after Chiang Kai-shek's death, is arguably his most famous wife even though they had no children together

Chetniks leader General Mihailovic with members of the U.S. military mission, Operation Halyard, 1944

Romanian soldiers in Transylvania, September–October 1944

The dead bodies of Benito Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and several Fascist leaders, hanging for public display after they were executed by Italian partisans in 1945

The first version of the flag of the United Nations, introduced in April 1945

A British poster from 1941, promoting the greater alliance against Germany

U.S. government poster showing a friendly Soviet soldier, 1942

Commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army (from which he came to be known as a Generalissimo), he led the Northern Expedition from 1926 to 1928, before defeating a coalition of warlords and nominally reunifying China under a new Nationalist government.

- Chiang Kai-shek

They were nominally reunified in 1928 by the Nanjing-based government led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, which after the Northern Expedition governed the country as a one-party state under the Kuomintang, and was subsequently given international recognition as the legitimate representative of China.

- Nationalist government

At the end of World War II in 1945, the Empire of Japan surrendered control of Taiwan and its island groups to the Allies, and Taiwan was placed under the Republic of China's administrative control.

- Nationalist government

As the leader of a major Allied power, Chiang met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Cairo Conference to discuss terms for the Japanese surrender.

- Chiang Kai-shek

The Soviet Union intervened against Japan and its client state in Manchuria in 1945, cooperating with the Nationalist Government of China and the Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek; though also cooperating, preferring, and encouraging the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong to take effective control of Manchuria after expelling Japanese forces.

- Allies of World War II

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Commonly recognised as the official designation of China from 1912 to 1949, when it was a country in East Asia based in Mainland China, prior to the relocation of its central government to Taiwan as a result of the Chinese Civil War.

Land controlled by the Republic of China (1946) shown in dark green; land claimed but uncontrolled shown in light green.

Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China.

Yuan Shikai (left) and Sun Yat-sen (right) with flags representing the early republic

Major Chinese warlord coalitions during the "Nanjing Decade".

China had been at war with Japan since 1931.

Chinese Nationalist Army soldiers during the 1938 Yellow River flood

The Nationalists' retreat to Taipei: after the Nationalists lost Nanjing (Nanking) they next moved to Guangzhou (Canton), then to Chongqing (Chungking), Chengdu (Chengtu) and Xichang (Sichang) before arriving in Taipei.

Nationalist government of Nanking – nominally ruling over entire China during 1930s

Boat traffic and development along Suzhou Creek, Shanghai, 1920

General Chiang Kai-shek, who became the Chairman of the Kuomintang after Sun's death and subsequent power struggle in 1925, began the Northern Expedition in 1926 to overthrow the Beiyang government.

In 1927, Chiang moved the nationalist government to Nanking and purged the CCP, beginning with the Shanghai massacre.

In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Empire of Japan surrendered control of Taiwan and its island groups to the Allies; and Taiwan was placed under the Republic of China's administrative control.