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Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, April 6—Chiang Kai‐shek, the President of Nationalist China and the last survivor of the Big Four Allied leaders of World War II, died of a heart attack here last night. He was 87 years old.
May 19, 2024 · Chiang Kai-shek (born October 31, 1887, Fenghua, Zhejiang province, China—died April 5, 1975, Taipei, Taiwan) was a soldier and statesman, head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently head of the Chinese Nationalist government in exile on Taiwan.
Nov 9, 2009 · Chinese military and political leader Chiang Kai-shek joined the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang, or KMT) in 1918. Succeeding party founder Sun Yat-sen as KMT leader in...
Chiang Kai-shek , or Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi, (born Oct. 31, 1887, Zhejiang, China—died April 5, 1975, Taipei, Taiwan), Head of the Nationalist government in China (1928–49) and later in Taiwan (1949–75).
Chiang Kai-Shek, June 1946 © Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military and political leader who led the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) for five decades and was head of state of the...
In 1887, Chiang Kai-Shek was born into a merchant family from Zhejiang province. Disillusioned with the Qing dynasty, Chiang symbolically cut off his hair braid in 1905 as a sign of rebellion. He then decided to forge a military career and received training in Japan.
As leader of the Nationalist Party after Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek both unified and lost China. Chiang proved unable to defeat Mao's Communist revolution, and fled to Taiwan, where seeds of democracy sprouted after his death in 1975. 1975.
