Second United Front

For other uses, see United Front (disambiguation).

Second United Front
第二次國共合作
Leaders	Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong
Dates active	December 24, 1936 (1936-12-24) – March 7, 1947 (1947-03-07)
Merger of	Kuomintang Chinese Communist Party
Country	China
Allegiance	Nationalist government
Headquarters	Chongqing, Yan'an
Ideology	Chinese nationalism Anti-fascism
Political position	Big tent
Part of	United Nations

A Communist soldier waving the Nationalists' flag of the Republic of China after a victorious battle against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second United Front (traditional Chinese: 第二次國共合作; simplified Chinese: 第二次国共合作; pinyin: dì èr cì guógòng hézuò; lit. 'Second Nationalist-Communist Cooperation') was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resist the Imperial Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1945. In practice, the United Front functioned more like a non-aggression pact than a truly proactive military alliance.