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34 lines
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The **Kuomingtang** (sometimes called the **Guomindang**, **KMT**,
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**Nationalist Party of China**, **Chinese Nationalist Party** or
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**Whites**) are a [political party](Political_Party "wikilink") in
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Taiwan and formerly a major force in mainland
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[China's](China "wikilink") politics, leading the [Xinhai
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Revolution](Xinhai_Revolution "wikilink"), fighting in the [Chinese
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Civil War](Chinese_Civil_War "wikilink") and leading the resistance to
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the [Japanese Empire](Japanese_Empire "wikilink") during their [invasion
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of China](Second_Sino-Japanese_War "wikilink").
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## History
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### Origins
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### Formation
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### Xinhai Revolution
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### Chinese Civil War
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### Japanese Invasion
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The Kuomingtang made several military blunders, including destroying
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several dams (leading to the worst natural disaster in the 20th century
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that killed between 400,000 and 4,000,000 people and wiped out 15% of
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the countries agricultural output) burning down the city of Changsha
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(killing 30,000 people and destroying 56,000 buildings) to prevent the
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Japanese taking the cities wealth.
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### Fighting Communism
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### Taiwan
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### Taiwanese Democracy |