In 1945 the Republic of China emerged from the war nominally a great military power but actually a nation economically prostrate and on the verge of all-out civil war . The economy deteriorated , sapped by the military demands of foreign war and internal strife , by spiraling inflation and by Nationalist profiteering , speculation and hoarding . Starvation came in the wake of the war , and millions were rendered homeless by floods and the unsettled conditions in many parts of the country . The situation was further complicated by an Allied agreement at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 that brought Soviet troops into Manchuria to hasten the termination of war against Japan . Although the Chinese had not been present at Yalta , they had been consulted and had agreed to have the Soviets enter the war in the belief that the Soviet Union would deal only with the Kuomintang government
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
History of the Republic of China