Paused the civil war and brought together to two factions of Chinese to fight a common enemy.
The Nationalist and Communists had been fighting for power in China. With the Japanese invasions in 1937, the two warring factions joined together to fight the Japanese. Some of the Communists ran to the rural areas of China once they realized the brutality of the Japanese. Following World War II, the Chinese will continue fighting each other for control with the Communists winning in 1949.