Sun Yat Sen & the Kuomintang
- Led the Kuomintang
- Had trouble getting foreign aid because they were socialist (except USSR) :give this back
- Wanted to establish a socialist democracy
- Country was dominate by warlords
Chiang Kai-Shek
- Became leader of the Kuomintang in 1925 after Sun Yat Sen died
- Communist, Mao Zedong was leader of propaganda
- Soon controlled all of China south of the Yangste River
- Rid his party of Communists, killed many while others like Mao fled to remote parts of China
"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek
summary
The Kuomintang lead by Sun Yat sen and later Chiang Kai shek, ruled much of China from 1928 until its retreat to Taiwan in 1949 after being defeated by the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the Chinese Civil War. There, the KMT controlled the government under a single-party state until reformed in the late 1970s through the 1990s loosened its grip on power.