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[[File:Mao proclaiming the establishment of the PRC in 1949.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px350px|Mao proclaiming the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949]]
On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920s. The creation of the PRC also completed the long process of governmental upheaval in China begun by the Chinese Revolution of 1911. The “fall” of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades.
====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.
====Conclusion====
For more than twenty years after the Chinese revolution of 1949, there were few contacts, limited trade and no diplomatic ties between the two countries. Until the 1970s, the United States continued to recognize the Republic of China, located in Taiwan, as China’s true government and supported that government’s holding the Chinese seat in the United Nations.
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* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]
* Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/chinese-rev| The Chinese Revolution of 1949]
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