LIAOSHEN CAMPAIGN

Although the war had been raging since 1927, a decisive moment was not achieved for decades. The fight between Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Chinese Communist Party had been put on hold by the Sino-Japanese War (WWII) but after the Japanese invaders were finally defeated hostilities immediately resumed. This new period of the Civil War would latterly be known as the Chinese Communist Revolution and Mao’s