The Xi'an incident took place in Xi'an when generals Chang and Yang from the North-Eastern Army took hostage Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek because they disagreed with Chiang's policy of trying to defeat the CCP before focusing his attention on Japan and since he repeatedly refused their request to change policy.
The "Anti-Japanese Comrade Society" wanted to execute Chiang, but Chang and the CCP wanted to keep him alive to maintain the possibility of an United Front against the Japanese.
Chiang was held in house arrest from 12 to 26 December 1936, he was freed when he promised to end the Chinese Civil War and to resist the Japanese together with the communists. He later repudiated the promises he made at Xi'an but in the end he did make peace with the communists and formed the Second United Front.
The Japanese were provoked by this as they considered this an act against them and they launched their invasion of China shortly after.
But what if Chiang had died either by mistake during his capture or because of stronger influence of the "Anti-Japanese Comrade Society"?
Would the Japanese invade China sooner due to the instability caused by Chiang's death or would the invasion be delayed?
In the case Japan still invades how much worse would the war go for China?
What would happen to the CCP?
Would the US and Japan still go to war?
The "Anti-Japanese Comrade Society" wanted to execute Chiang, but Chang and the CCP wanted to keep him alive to maintain the possibility of an United Front against the Japanese.
Chiang was held in house arrest from 12 to 26 December 1936, he was freed when he promised to end the Chinese Civil War and to resist the Japanese together with the communists. He later repudiated the promises he made at Xi'an but in the end he did make peace with the communists and formed the Second United Front.
The Japanese were provoked by this as they considered this an act against them and they launched their invasion of China shortly after.
But what if Chiang had died either by mistake during his capture or because of stronger influence of the "Anti-Japanese Comrade Society"?
Would the Japanese invade China sooner due to the instability caused by Chiang's death or would the invasion be delayed?
In the case Japan still invades how much worse would the war go for China?
What would happen to the CCP?
Would the US and Japan still go to war?
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