EVENT INFORMATION

12
April
1927

Nationalist forces begin a violent purge in Shanghai

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📅 12 April 1927 📍 China

Chiang Kai-shek's forces and allied armed groups attacked Communist and labor organizations in Shanghai. The purge, remembered as the April 12 Incident or Shanghai Massacre, expanded into anti-Communist repression elsewhere and broke the First United Front between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. The event opened a new phase of civil conflict, while Shanghai's internationalized economy and foreign concessions formed part of its setting.

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Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese workers and Communist organizers

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Kuomintang

Chinese Communist Party

Green Gang