Civil War in China

China was split. Half of China was ruled under Communism and the other half was under the rule of Nationalism. The Communists were led by Mao Zedong and the Nationalists were ruled by Chiang Kai-Shek. The Nationalists and the Communists and been fighting together agianst the Japanese invaders but as soon as the Japapnese surrendured and went home civil war broke out. From 1944-1947 the United States kept a kind of peace between the two sides even though they were supporting the Nationalists. But even while they held a peace, the US could never get the two sides to negotiate peace and in May of 1949 Chiang and his followers fled China. China was now a communism.