First United Front

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First United Front
聯俄容共
Leader	Sun Yat-sen (1923–1925) Chiang Kai-shek (1926–1927)
Dates of operation	January 26, 1923 (1923-01-26)–April 12, 1927 (1927-04-12)
Merger of	Chinese Nationalist Party Chinese Communist Party
Country	China
Allegiance	Nationalist government
Motives	Chinese unification
Headquarters	Guangzhou
Ideology	Tridemism Democracy Nationalism
Political position	Big tent
Allies	Soviet Union
Opponents	Beiyang government Fengtian clique Zhili clique  Empire of Japan
Battles and wars	Northern Expedition
Succeeded by Second United Front

The First United Front (simplified Chinese: 联俄容共; traditional Chinese: 聯俄容共; pinyin: Lián É Róng Gòng; Jyutping: Lyun4 Ngo4 Jung4 Gung6; lit. 'Ally with Russia and incorporate the Communists'; alternatively simplified Chinese: 联俄联共; traditional Chinese: 聯俄聯共; pinyin: Lián É Lián Gòng; Jyutping: Lyun4 Ngo4 Lyun4 Gung6), also known as the KMT–CCP Alliance, of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was formed in 1924 as an alliance to end warlordism in China. Together they formed the National Revolutionary Army and set out in 1926 on the Northern Expedition. The CCP joined the KMT as individuals, making use of KMT's superiority in numbers to help spread communism. The KMT, on the other hand, wanted to control the communists from within. Both parties had their own aims and the Front was unsustainable. In 1927, KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek purged the Communists from the Front while the Northern Expedition was still half-complete. This initiated a civil war between the two parties that lasted until the Second United Front was formed in 1936 to prepare for the coming Second Sino-Japanese War.