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====After defeating the Japanese - Civil War breaks out in 1945====
[[File:Shangtang.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px350px|Picture of Troops fighting during the Shangdang Campaign between the KMT and Chinese Communists in 1945. The Shangdang Campaign was the first time that the Communist Army successfully used conventional military tactics (as opposed to guerilla tactics) against the KMT]]
Japanese surrender set the stage for the resurgence of civil war in China. Though only nominally democratic, the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek continued to receive U.S. support both as its former war ally and as the sole option for preventing Communist control of China. U.S. forces flew tens of thousands of Nationalist Chinese troops into Japanese-controlled territory and allowed them to accept the Japanese surrender. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, occupied Manchuria and only pulled out when Chinese Communist forces were in place to claim that territory.
