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The 145 pages that link to Chinese Civil War, each with the reason it gives.

• Korean WarCompared with: Its outcome preceded the Korean War and shaped China’s intervention, but it ended with a different territorial settlement.

• Mao ZedongRelated: Mao led the communist side to victory and the founding of the People’s Republic.

• Chinese Communist PartyRelated: Victory in the civil war brought the CCP to national power.

• Republic of ChinaRelated: The republic’s defeat on the mainland transformed it into a government based in Taiwan.

• Cultural RevolutionNarrower topic: It belongs to the earlier revolutionary struggle that produced the state later shaken by the upheaval.

• Deng XiaopingRelated: Deng became a senior Communist military and political leader during the final campaigns.

• Second Sino-Japanese WarRelated: Their wartime alliance gave way to renewed civil war after the common enemy surrendered.

• TaiwanRelated: Its outcome established the political division underlying Taiwan’s current status.

• People's Republic of ChinaRelated: The Communist victory made possible the proclamation of the People's Republic.

• ShanghaiRelated: The Communist takeover in 1949 redirected Shanghai’s political and economic life.

• Chiang Kai-shekRelated: Its outcome drove Chiang’s government to retreat to Taiwan.

• ChinaRelated: Its outcome established the People's Republic on the mainland.

• Chinese Communist RevolutionNarrower topic: The revolution’s decisive military phase was the civil war’s final resumption after Japan’s defeat.

• Chinese nationalismRelated: The unresolved division produced competing claims to represent China.

• MaoismRelated: Communist victory in this war demonstrated the political and military strategy later associated with Maoism.

• Long MarchNarrower topic: The Long March was a pivotal episode within this prolonged struggle.

• KuomintangRelated: The party's defeat forced its government and forces to retreat to Taiwan.

• ManchuriaRelated: Control of Manchuria gave the Communist forces a major industrial and strategic base.

• Greek Civil WarCompared with: Its outcome reversed the Greek war’s result in the same year.

• Yuan ShikaiNarrower topic: The later struggle emerged from a republic whose central authority had remained contested.

• Civil warBroader topic: It shows how a civil war can resume after a common external enemy is defeated.

• People's Liberation ArmyRelated: The PLA emerged from this conflict as the military of the new People's Republic.

• Northeast ChinaRelated: Control of Northeast China became a decisive military and political advantage for the Communists.

• Northern ExpeditionRelated: The 1927 break between the allies turned their political rivalry into armed conflict.

• Warlord EraRelated: The reunification coalition soon fractured into a new struggle for state power.

• Soviet invasion of ManchuriaRelated: Soviet withdrawal and the disposition of captured Japanese weapons affected the struggle for Manchuria.

• China–United States relationsNarrower topic: Its outcome divided China’s government and framed U.S. policy toward Beijing and Taiwan.

• Lin BiaoNarrower topic: Lin’s battlefield reputation and command authority grew during the Communist victory.

• Chinese Academy of SciencesRelated: The revolution reshaped the academy’s governance, staff, and place in the new state.

• Liu ShaoqiRelated: Liu’s party leadership developed through the Communist struggle that ended with the party’s victory in 1949.

• Second United FrontCompared with: The united front suspended their open war without resolving its underlying contest.

• Taiwanese identityRelated: The relocation made political separation from mainland China a defining historical condition.

• White Terror (Taiwan)Related: The government's defeat on the mainland intensified its anti-communist security policies in Taiwan.

• Liaodong PeninsulaRelated: Communist forces took control of Liaodong and its ports near the war’s end.

• One-China policyNarrower topic: Its outcome created the two governments whose competing claims underlie the policy.

• TongmenghuiNarrower topic: The Tongmenghui’s successor party became one of the principal sides in this later conflict.

• Cross-Strait relationsRelated: Its 1949 outcome established the separate governments that define the relationship.

• Chen DuxiuNarrower topic: Chen’s political career unfolded amid the revolutionary conflicts that preceded the civil war.

• Mao Zedong ThoughtRelated: Its changing military fortunes shaped Mao’s strategies of rural base-building and protracted war.

• Taiwan independence movementNarrower topic: The movement challenges political arrangements rooted in the war’s unresolved outcome.

• Chen YunRelated: Chen’s revolutionary career began before the Communist victory that established the state he later helped govern.

• First United FrontNarrower topic: The alliance’s breakdown turned political rivalry into sustained armed conflict.

• Hu YaobangNarrower topic: Hu’s revolutionary career developed during the Communist struggle that brought the party to power.

• Nanchang UprisingRelated: The revolt inaugurated the armed phase of their struggle.

• People's WarRelated: The Communist victory became the central historical example of Maoist people's war.

• Chinese reunificationRelated: Its outcome divided control of China between the mainland and Taiwan.

• Chinese RevolutionBroader topic: Its Communist victory established the People’s Republic in 1949.

• Peking ManRelated: The war’s outbreak coincided with the disappearance of the original fossils in 1941.

• André MalrauxRelated: The Shanghai uprising of 1927, set amid this conflict, became central to Malraux’s fiction.

• Battle of ShanghaiNarrower topic: Wartime cooperation against Japan did not end the political conflict between China’s rival forces.