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Xi'an Incident
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Xi'an Incident
The
Xi'an Incident
of December 1936 , an important turning point in
Chinese modern history
, took place in the city of
Xi'an
during the
Chinese Civil War
between the ruling
Kuomintang
(KMT) and the insurgent
Chinese Communist Party
and just before the
Second Sino-Japanese War
. On 12 December 1936,
Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek
, the leader of the Kuomintang, was arrested by Marshal
Zhang Xueliang
, a former warlord of
Manchuria
, and Commander of the North Eastern Army who had fought against the
Japanese occupation of Manchuria
and
subsequent expansion
into
Inner Mongolia
by the Japanese and troops of the
puppet state
of
Manchukuo
that had been created in Manchuria.
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