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Eighth Route Army
CCP military force operating in northern China under nominal GMD command during the United Front.
Guerrilla Warfare
Strategy of irregular combat and mobility, central to Mao’s revolutionary tactics.
New Fourth Army Incident
A January 1941 clash in which KMT forces ambushed and destroyed a column of the CCP's New Fourth Army, killing over 3,000 troops. The incident effectively ended meaningful cooperation between the KMT and CCP within the Second United Front.
Second United Front
The wartime alliance between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), formed in 1937 to resist Japanese aggression. The front was largely superficial, with both sides maintaining separate armies, territories, and command structures, and it effectively collapsed by 1941.
Xi'an Incident
The kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek by General Zhang Xueliang in Xi'an on 12 December 1936. Zhang demanded that Chiang stop fighting the CCP and unite against Japan. The incident led directly to the formation of the Second United Front.