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* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
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The Chinese Communists were able to fight their way from the north and northeast, and virtually all of mainland China was taken by the end of 1949.
Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.
These theories were first applied in the 1920s by Chinese scholars such as Guo Moruo, and became orthodoxy in academic study after 1949.
* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.
The consolidation of Syngman Rhee's government in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended hopes that the country could be reunified by way of Stalinist revolution in the South, and from early 1949 Kim sought Soviet and Chinese support for a military campaign to reunify the country by force.
* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou ( Canton ), in Guangdong, China.
Chinese administrative geography was drawn mainly during the 1949 and 1954 administrative reorganizations.
When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.
After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.
In 1949, when the Dalai Lama was 15 years old and thus not yet the head of state, the Chinese government ordered a military march into Tibet in order to force the Tibetan government to negotiate its sovereignty.
The archipelago makes up the majority ( 99 %) of the territory of the Republic of China ( ROC ), after the ROC lost its mainland China territory in the Chinese Civil War and fled to the island in 1949.
Taiwan has historically benefited from the flight of many well-educated, wealthy Chinese to settle on the island: during early Qing Dynasty, the preceding Ming dynasty supporters survived for a brief period of time in exile in Taiwan, and in 1949, as the Chinese Communist Party gained control of mainland China, two million Kuomintang ( KMT ) supporters fled to the island.
* Chinese Civil War ( 1927 – 1949 )-The ruling Kuomintang and the rebel Communist Party of China fight a civil war for control of China.
Both sides rejected his proposals and the Chinese Civil War escalated, with the Communists winning in 1949.
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