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 | | The speed and destructiveness of the Japanese advance (the Chinese defenders suffered half a million casualties) exposed the weaknesses in the KMT military and destroyed a significant portion of Chiang Kai-sheks best divisions. |
 | | Later in the year Chiang Kai-shek came to the painful realization that he lacked the resources to prevent a CCP takeover of Manchuria following the scheduled Soviet departure, he therefore made a deal with the Russians to delay their withdrawal until he had moved enough of his best-trained men and modern materiel into the region. |
 | | This covers the period from the failure of the American-brokered peace negotiations; through the Manchurian, North China, Huai-hai, and Yangtze/Yangzi Campaigns; and culminates in the collapse of KMT resistance, which led directly to Chiang Kai-sheks retreat to Taiwan, and the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China on October 1, 1949. |
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