Chiang kai shek brief biography of sir

There were several small wars that heralded World War II. One of them was the Spanish Civil War and another one was the war between Japan and China, both taking place in the late 1930s.

Chiang Kai-shek was instrumental in the latter war.

Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) was the military and political leader of Nationalist China from the mid 1920s until 1949. He was the head of the Kuomintang Party, which was the Chinese Nationalist party that had overthrown the Manchu or Qing Dynasty and proclaimed China a republic in 1912.

Early Life

Chiang was born in the Zhejiang Province to affluent salt merchants.

Chiang kai shek brief biography of sir

His father died when he was a child and he received a military education in China at the Baoding Military Academy and then Tokyo. He was also a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army between 1909 and 1911.

It was in Japan where Chiang met Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader who had overthrown the Manchu Dynasty.

Chiang and Sun co-founded the Kuomintang, or KMT. On at least one occasi