Real Time History

Season 2025, Episode 3

Episode Title: Origin of the China-Taiwan Conflict: Chinese Civil War 1945-1949

Air Date: 2025-02-21

Overview:

With the Japanese surrender in September 1945, the Second World War comes to an end. But for China there won't be peace right away because the nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek and the communists under Mao Zedong still haven't resolved their struggle and so the Chinese Civil War will flare up once again.