A Timeline of US War (1945 - 1949)

China. 1945-49. Civil War (U.S. Kuomintang vs. Communists).The Communists were the most successful fighters against 17 years of the Japanese occupation of China. By 1945, the Communists had won hundreds of millions of people to their side, and were liberating one city after another from Japanese control. At the same time, another political party, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang in Chinese, or KMT for short), were fighting the Japanese with less success, but received tremendous U.S. military financial support. The U.S. enlisted Japanese soldiers, fresh off the battlefields of their defeat by the U.S., to fight against the Communists. The U.S. instructed all Japanese forces in China, who were under order of complete and unconditional surrender, to continuing fighting against the Communists. The U.S. military sent well over 100,000 American soldiers, a constant stream of military munitions (at a cost totaling more than $1,000,000,000), provided intelligence through unending air-surveillance, and conducted the military training of thirty-nine full army divisions of the Kuomintang.Over $2,000,000,000 in cash was given to the KMT to use as it choose. Entire divisions of the KMT defected to the Communists, who were known for their honesty, progress, and justness, as opposed to the extraordinarily corruption within the wealthy KMT. When the Communists prevailed after 23 devasting years of war, the Kuomintang escaped to Taiwan, killing over 28,000 Taiwanese civilians in their conquest of the island. The U.S. Navy then came in full force, patrolling the straights for years to protect the KMT take over of Taiwan. The U.S. refused to accept the reality of the Chinese Communist victory, and insisted that the Taiwanese government was the government of all China. The United Nations complied with U.S. wishes until the dictator of the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek, died in 1975.

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