In August 1945 , with American help , Nationalist troops moved to take the Japanese surrender in North China . The Soviet Union — encouraged to invade Manchuria to hasten the end of the war and allowed a Soviet sphere of influence there as agreed to at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 — dismantled and removed more than half the industrial equipment left there by the Japanese . 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 . However , the Soviet presence in northeast China enabled the Communists to arm themselves with equipment surrendered by the withdrawing Japanese army
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Republic of China (1912–1949)