China's actions following the Marco Polo Bridpge incident

The establishment of the Second United Front

Jiang´s insistence on fighting the Communist rather than the Japanese lost him support even from within his own party.

Jian announced that "the limits of endurance had been reached", and if they led one more inch of their territory "we shall be guilty of an unpardonable crime against our race"

When a national conference was held, Mao declared a policy of "total resistance by the whole nation"

Despite Jiang's new approach, the war went badly for the Chinese.

The escalation of the war caused by the Chinese United Front drew the Japanese into a conflict that they did not want and for which they did not have the reosurces.

Believing that China could never win against the Japanese, Wang agreed in 1940 to become the head of "the New Government of China"

By 1938, China was divided in three: Nationalist China, Communist China & Japanese-ccupied China.

In 1933 he had to suppress an uprising among his troops at Fujianwho were protesting at his failure to stand up to Japanese

In December 1936 while in the middle of a campaign against the Communist

Jiang was kidnapped by troops acting under the orders of Zhang Xue-liang the Manchurian warlord

Zhang had been placed in charge of the anti-communist campaign but, like nothern commanders, felt that Jiang should be focusing in the Japanese and not the Communist

The leaders of the CCP became involved in the negotations over Jiang´s release and the prominent communist

By the end of 1936, Chiang Kai-Shek's policy of opposing the CCP and not fighting the Japanese became increasingly unpopular