CHIANG KAI-SHEK
1887 - 1975

Chiang Kai-shek, or Chiang Chung-cheng, started out as a soldier.

He joined the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, in 1918.

When the head of the party, Sun Yat-sen, died in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek became the new party leader.

In 1943, Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

In 1949, Mao Zedong and his men took over and Chiang Kai-shek's team was exiled to Taiwan.

Here is the map of China in 1910

1910 China