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Second United Front
1937–41 alliance between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see United Front (disambiguation).
The Second United Front (traditional Chinese: 第二次國共合作; simplified Chinese: 第二次国共合作; pinyin: dì èr cì guógòng hézuò; lit. 'Second Nationalist-Communist Cooperation') was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resist the Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1945.
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第二次國共合作 | |
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Dates of operation | December 24, 1936 (1936-12-24) – 1947 (1947-03[1]) |
Dissolved | 7 April 1947 |
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Motives | Anti-imperialism Anti-Japanese sentiment |
Headquarters | Chongqing, Yan’an |
Ideology | Tridemism |
Political position | Big tent |
Part of | United Nations |
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Opponents | Axis powers |
Battles and wars | Second Sino-Japanese War |
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