List of wars involving the Republic of China explained

See also: List of Chinese wars and battles and List of wars involving the People's Republic of China.

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of China.

Wars involving the Republic of China

War	Republic of China and allies	Opponents	Result
Xinhai Revolution (1911 - 1912)	Revolutionaries Tongmenghui (the predecessor of the KMT) Chinese Republicans Hubei Military Government Gelaohui Tiandihui Han Chinese nationalists Various other revolutionary groups and forces Regional officials and warlords Mongols Tibetan people	Armed Forces Beiyang Army Monarchists Royalist Party Manchurian nationalists	Victory Abdication of the Xuantong Emperor Puyi Fall of the Qing dynasty End of Imperial China Establishment of the Republic of China Destabilization of China De facto independence of Outer Mongolia and Tibet (until 1951)
National Protection War (1915 - 1916)	Republic of China	Empire of China	Victory Abdication of Yuan Shikai Fall of the Empire of China Start of the Warlord Era
Manchu Restoration (1917)	Fengtian Clique Anhui Clique Zhili Clique	Royalist Party	Victory General Zhang Xun's army seized Beijing Briefly reinstallation of the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, Puyi, to the throne Restoration quickly reversed by Republican troops
World War I (1917 - 1918)	Canada Australia New Zealand		Victory End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations
Russian Civil War (1918 - 1920)	White Movement France United States Canada Australia Poland Estonia	Latvian SSR Ukrainian SSR Commune of Estonia Mongolian Communists	Withdrawal Allied withdrawal from Russia Bolshevik victory over White Army
Occupation of Mongolia (1919 - 1921)		Bogd Khanate of Mongolia Buryat-Mongolia White Movement	Withdrawal Mongolia occupied by China until 1921 when the Mongolian Revolution of 1921 occurred
Northern Expedition (1926 - 1928)	Beiyang Government National Pacification Army Fengtian Clique Zhili Clique	Nationalist Government National Revolutionary Army Kuomintang Chinese Communist Party	Beiyang Defeat KMT and CCP form the First United Front in 1924 Nationalist government rules over the entirety of the Republic of China Overthrow of the Beiyang government Nanjing–Wuhan split Beginning of the Chinese Civil War
Chinese Civil War (first phase) (1927 - 1936)	Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army	Chinese Communist Party Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Chinese Soviet Republic Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet Fujian People's Government	Ceasefire Fighting suspended due to the war with Japan and World War II KMT and CCP form the Second United Front in 1937
Sino-Soviet Conflict (1929)			Defeat Provisions of 1924 agreement upheld
Sino-Tibetan War (1930 - 1932)		Tibet	Victory Tibetan invasion repulsed Eastern Xikang falls under Chinese control
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria (1931 - 1932)			Defeat Tanggu Truce Establishment of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo
Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang (1934)			Ceasefire Xinjiang divided in two
Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)		Xinjiang	Defeat Establishment of the rule of Sheng Shicai's regime over the whole territory of Xinjiang province
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945)			Victory Merged into World War II Chinese victory as part of the Allied victory in the Pacific War Surrender of all Japanese forces in mainland China (excluding Manchuria), Formosa and French Indochina north of 16° north to China China becomes a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council Resumption of the Chinese Civil War
World War II (1939 - 1945)	United States United Kingdom France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Brazil Mexico Philippines British Malaya		Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Chinese Civil War (second phase) (1945 - 1949)	Kuomintang ROC Armed Forces	Chinese Communist Party Pre-PLA troops and militia People's Liberation Army	Defeat Chinese Communist Party takeover of mainland China and Hainan People's Republic of China established in mainland China Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan

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