The Xi'an Incident of December 1936 is an important episode of Chinese modern history, taking place in the city of Xi'an during the Chinese Civil War between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the rebel Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and just before the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Zhang Xueliang Yang Hucheng Chiang Kai-shek Blue Shirts Society Yen Hsi-shan He Yingqin Whampoa Military Academy Li Zongren Ye Jianying Soong May-ling Zhou Enlai Manchuria Chinese Civil War Kuomintang Second Sino-Japanese War Communist Party of China History of China Joseph Stalin Second United Front Qin Bangxian Yoshijirō Umezu Inner Mongolian Army Zhang Wentian Wang Ming T. V. Soong Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941) Suiyuan Chen Cheng Suiyuan Campaign (1936) Zhang Zuolin Custody Zhu De Chinese nationalism Central Plains War Wang Jingwei Generalissimo Military tribunal Kwantung Army Northern Expedition (1926–1927) Military of the Republic of China
