the guomingdang

who were the guomingdang?

China's nationalist party led by sun yat-sen

1911- a revolution occured due to the chinese being tired of european powers involved in chinese affairs

the emperor was overthrown and china descended into chaos and warlords divided the country into mini kingdoms

1921-GMD allied with the chinese communist party and fought against warlords

1927-when most of the warlords had been defeated Chiang(the current leader of GMD) turned against the CCP and imprisoned Mao

Mao escaped and rebuilt the communist party 

the CCP's red army fought a guerilla war against the GMD and although…