Date in year · 1948 · The 1940s
On May 20, 1948, generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing. Régis Wargnier, John Pritchard, Jeff Baxter would arrive in the same year.
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Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. He became effective leader of the Kuomintang in 1926 and of the Republic of China in 1928, but was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, after which he retreated to Taiwan, where he ruled until his death in 1975.
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1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
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Leader of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. He became effective leader of the Kuomintang in 1926 and of the Republic of China in 1928, but was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, after which he retreated to Taiwan, where he ruled until his death in 1975.
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