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Whampoa Military Academy (1924)

On the Chinese Revolution map as “Whampoa”

Jun 1924 — With Soviet money, arms and advisers, Sun Yat-sen founds a party army academy on an island below Canton. Commandant: Chiang Kai-shek. Political department: Zhou Enlai. Nearly every commander of the wars to 1949 — on both sides — passes through its first classes.

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Turning point
Chapter
Northern Expedition and United Front (chapter 4 of Chinese Revolution)
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China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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