Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT · 1924

Whampoa Military Academy (1924)

On the Chinese Revolution map as “Whampoa”

Jun 1924 — Sun Yat-sen establishes a party army academy on an island below Canton, using Soviet money, arms and advisers. Chiang Kai-shek is its commandant, and Zhou Enlai heads the political department. Nearly every commander on both sides of the wars through 1949 passes through its first classes.

When: Jun 1924
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Northern Expedition and United Front (chapter 4 of Chinese Revolution)
Atlas: China in Revolution, 1911–1949

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Map showing Whampoa Military Academy (1924), turning point in China in Revolution, 1911–1949 — TURNING POINT · CHINA IN REVOLUTION, 1911–1949

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · USOfficeoftheHistorian — ChineseRevolutionof1949 · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · USMA: Warlords, 1925 · USMA: Nationalist China, 1929-37

Source details

USOfficeoftheHistorian — ChineseRevolutionof1949. Historical facts consulted; original prose/artwork not republished
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Natural Earth. Public domain
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished

Warlord regions use the nearest published coalition map from 1925 or 1928–1937. District-level allegiances changed, so these are represented by a disclosed regional reference.

The Northern Expedition geometry shows the annual campaign phase for 1927; the chapter anchor remains unchanged.

proxy: 1925clique;laterManchurianregionaloutline · proxy: 1938–1945 earliest separate multipart source reference · reconstruction: 1927 annual campaignphase · reconstruction: 1927.05 · trace: 1925 regionalcoalitions · trace: 1928–1937 regional coalitions · vector: 1927–1927

Layer records and reconstruction methods