CLEP Social Sciences

Answer - A - Chiang Kai-shek succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leader of the Nationalist Party.

Key Takeaway: Sun Yat-sen died of cancer in 1925, leaving the leadership of the Nationalist Party in China to Chiang Kai-shek. A Western-educated officer who later became a big anti-Communist, Chiang Kai-shek tried to create a constitutional government in the 1920s. A politically stable China was never in the cards for Chiang Kai-shek, though, due to intense warlord anarchy and a growing threat of invasion from the Japanese.