1st United Front (1921-26)

*United Front, 1923

*National People's Party or *GMD (Guomindang)

*Sun Yat-sen

Canton

Comintern

Maring, 1921

*Borodin, 1923

Native of Latvia

Exiled in U.S., 1905-17

GMD+CCP

Leninist Party Organization

President (Unelected)

Three Principles of the People

Nationalism, Democracy, Socialism

Whampoa Military Academy

*Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), GMD

Trained in USSR, 1923

Commandant

*Zhou Enlai, CCP

Director of Political Education

Power struggles

Death of Sun Yat-sen, March 1925

Wang Jingwei (left-wing)

Hu Hanmin (right-wing)

Chiang Kai-shek (military)

*Borodin (Comintern)

Leadership struggles

Chiang Kai-shek

President

Military cadets

CCP

Comintern

Borodin

Stalin

GMD Consolidation of Regional Power

Control of Canton, Early 1925

Republic of China declared, July 1925

Significance?

Expansion into surrounding region

Guandong and Guangxi provinces, Feb. 1926