1940s in China

Japanese invasion of China (1937–1945)

Nationalist Army of the Republic of China

united front between Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party (1937–1945)

Kuomintang-ruled government of the Republic of China between 1925 and 1948

1942–45 mass movement initiated by the Chinese Communist Party

campaign led by the Imperial Japanese Army to pacify resistance to the puppet state of Manchukuo

Waishengren, formerly called mainlanders, are a group of migrants who arrived in Taiwan from mainland China between the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in 1945 and during the Kuomintang retreat at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. They came from various regions of mainland China and spanned multiple social classes.

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1945 United States military operation

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