Opening Campaign
| Opening Campaign | ||||||||
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| Part of World War II (until 2 September 1945) and the Chinese Civil War | ||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||
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Chinese Nationalists United States |
Chinese Communists Soviet Union | Empire of Japan (August 1945) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||
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Chiang Kai-shek Bai Chongxi Li Zongren Yan Xishan |
Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Zhu De Peng Dehuai Aleksandr Vasilevsky |
Otozō Yamada Yasuji Okamura Puyi | ||||||
| Strength | ||||||||
| 110,000 | 100,000 |
600,000 (10–11 August) hundreds afterwards deserted | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||
| c. 45,000 | Unknown | All killed, defected, deserted, or captured | ||||||
The Opening Campaign was the start of second phase of the Chinese Civil War, beginning at the end of World War II with the surrender of Japan. After the war ended, the Second United Front had no more meaning, and it disbanded. The generals of the nationalist and communist causes scrapped for territory, beginning the second chapter of the bloody conflict.