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| Chiang Kai-shek becomes leader of Kuomintang |
| Chiang Kai-shek became leader of the Kuomintang (the Chinese government) after the death of Sun. He and his head of propaganda, Mao Tse-tung, went their own political ways, with Mao going to the left and Chiang staying where he was. This is when Ckiang began his crack down of communists and a whole era of Chinese history was set up. |
| Related: Cultural Revoltion | Great Leap Forward | Hundred Flowers Campaigne | Sino-Soviet Split | Sputnik | Chinese Revoltion | Long March | Kuomintang Rebellion |
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