Because of the rivalry between Chiang and Li, Chiang refused to allow Nationalist troops loyal to him to aid in the defense of Guangxi and Guangdong, with the result that Communist forces occupied Guangdong in October 1949.

They came from a claimed " 53 nations " to fight against the Spanish Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco and assisted by German and Italian forces.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.

* 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces.

At the time, Spain was embroiled in a bloody civil war, triggered by the rebellion of Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco against the socialist Republican government of President Manuel Azaña.

Both services were interested in the combat performance of the new Messerschmitt Bf109s and Panzer I and IIs deployed with Nationalist forces in Spain.

As a result of this accident, Philby, who was well-liked by the Nationalist forces whose victories he trumpeted, was awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco on 2 March 1938.

The minimum demands included a halt to the economic and oil embargoes, withdrawal of political and economic support for the Chinese Nationalist government, agreement to keep Western military forces in the Pacific at their current level, and non-interference in Japan's attempts to bring " peace " to China.

After successfully repelling Austro-Hungarian, White, and Ukrainian Nationalist forces, the Makhnovists militia forces and anarchist communist territories in the Ukraine were eventually crushed by Bolshevik military forces.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July, Hitler and Mussolini supported the fascist and authoritarian Nationalist forces in their civil war against the Soviet-supported Spanish Republic.

He was extremely influential in establishing the political department / party representative ( commissar ) system which was adopted in Nationalist armed forces in 1925.

The Nationalist regime's campaign against Chen consisted of forces from the Guangdong Army under Xu Chongzhi, and two training regiments of the Nationalist Party Army, led by Chiang Kai-shek and staffed by Academy officers and cadets.

As the Communists attempted to install a soviet municipal government, conflict began between the Nationalists and Communists, and on 12 April Nationalist forces, including both members of the Green Gang and soldiers under the command of Nationalist general Bai Chongxi attacked the Communists and quickly overcame them.

* 1936-Spanish Civil War ; U. S. neutral ; American Catholics support Nationalist forces ; left-wing elements support Republican forces

In 1938 he visited Barcelona, then under attack from Spanish Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

The Communist Party of China ( CCP ), founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu with Soviet support, initially collaborated with the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ( KMT ), founded by the revolutionary republican Sun Yat-sen. After the unexpected death of Sun in March 1925, a power struggle within the KMT favored Chiang Kai-shek, whose Northern Expedition forces succeeded in wresting control of large areas of China from local warlords, establishing a unified government in Nanjing in April 1927.

As Mao had predicted, the city was weakly defended, and was too far from Nationalist forces to be under immediate threat of attack.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

The Cornish Nationalist Party ( CNP ),, was a political party in the United Kingdom, led by Dr James Whetter which campaigned for independence for Cornwall.

In Taiwan, where the Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang ) strongly promoted Confucian beliefs in ethics and behavior, the tradition of the memorial ceremony of Confucius ( 祭孔 ) is supported by the government and has continued without interruption.

Despite repeated dynastic change in China, the title of Duke Yansheng was bestowed upon successive generations of descendants until it was abolished by the Nationalist Government in 1935.

The price for such support was the resignation of Nationalist ( ex-Labor ) Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, who was replaced by Stanley Bruce.

During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

This fire was deliberately caused by the retreating Nationalist army in order to prevent the city from falling to the Japanese.

Stilwell estimated that at least half of the $ 100 million spent on construction of airbases was embezzled by Nationalist party officials.

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When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

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However, it was readily accepted by members of the Chinese Nationalist Party and is the name under which Chiang Kai-shek is still commonly known in Taiwan.

Corradini's views were part of a wider set of perceptions within the right-wing Italian Nationalist Association ( ANI ), which claimed that Italy's economic backwardness was caused by corruption in its political class, liberalism, and division caused by " ignoble socialism ".

The appointment was denounced by the opposition Nationalist Party of Australia as being " practically republican ", but the precedent had been set.

Nationalist sentiment among Greeks in the Ottoman Empire continued to grow, and by the 1890s there were constant disturbances in Macedonia.

They are held in high esteem by the Beijing government because they fought on the side of the CPC against Chinese Nationalist rule during the Chinese Civil War.

Since Independence, the party electoral system has been dominated by the Christian democratic Nationalist Party ( Partit Nazzjonalista ) and the social democratic Labour Party ( Partit Laburista ).

After meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, Whitlam observed that the reason Japan at that time was hesitant to withdraw recognition from the Nationalist government was " the presence of a treaty between the Japanese government and that of Chiang Kai-shek ".

" In Shanghai, Mao also met with one of his old teachers, Yi Peiji, a revolutionary and member of the Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist Party, which at the time was gaining increasing support and influence across China.

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It was the second time the Country Party had effectively vetoed its senior partner's choice for the leadership ; in 1923 Earle Page had demanded that the Nationalist Party, one of the forerunners of the Liberals, remove Billy Hughes as leader before he would even consider coalition talks.

It is not known what criteria were used to determine who would stay and who would go, but 16, 000 troops and some of the Communists ' most notable commanders at the time ( including Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, Tan Zhenlin, and Qu Qiubai ) were left to form a rear guard, to divert the main force of Nationalist troops from noticing, and preventing, the general withdrawal .< ref > Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.

By the time Nationalist armies began to receive large amounts of supplies via the Ledo Road, the war had ended.

By the time of the Second Sino Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ), Kung had achieved a reputation as an exceptionally powerful and manipulative figure within the Nationalist government.

) From later in 1925 to 1927, the Nationalist Party members took their seats for the first time.

In an attempt to stem the Nationalist tide and gain crucial time for Madrid's defence, Soviet armor was deployed south of the city under the command of Colonel Krivoshein before the end of October.

At this time, several T-26 tanks under the command of Captain Paul Arman were thrown into a Republican counterattack directed towards the town of Torrejon de Velasco in an attempt to cut off the Nationalist advance north.

During his time in Spain he developed early gasoline and oil bombs, suggested the quartering of personnel on trains to aid in relocation, and following the Nationalist victory was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds for his contributions.

At the time, China was divided internally between the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) which was under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the Nationalist government of China, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek.

* August 14 – A Nationalist offensive in northern Spain against Basque forces defending Santander, begins, supported by 70 German – including the latest models, being evaluated in combat for the first time – 80 Italian, and 70 Spanish Nationalist aircraft.

After repeated attempts to win support and recognition from Western countries failed, the Nationalist Party government in Canton led by Dr. Sun gained help ( advisers and critically vital small arms ) from Soviet Russia, which viewed it as a likely revolutionary ally against Western interests in the Far East ; Chinese nationalism at the time ( of treaty ports and extraterritoriality discriminations ) was naturally heavily infected with resentment against the West.

The parties again contested the 1924 elections separately although this time they did form a coalition, eventually merging in 1926 under the old name of Nationalist Party.

Having recently lost a major military conflict against the USSR, Zhang Xueliang, falsely claiming to be under implicit instructions from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government to adhere to a nonresistance policy, had already urged his men not to put up a fight and to store away any weapons in case the Japanese invaded ( a piece of information that the Japanese advisors to Zhang's army knew ahead of time, hence facilitating the planning ).

For a time, he also became associated with Eddy Morrison who had split from the White Nationalist Party and organised a Spearhead Support Group to back Tyndall.

At the same time, in Ulster in the north east, a sectarian war broke out, when in July 1920, loyalists, aided in some cases by the Ulster Special Constabulary, attacked the Catholic / Nationalist population in reprisal for IRA actions.

The incident permanently tarnished Chiang Wei-kuo's name, at a time when the Chiang family was increasingly unpopular on Taiwan and even within the Nationalist Party.

The SPS was in coalition with the Nationalist Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) at the time.