When China declared a ceasefire, the Sino-Indian War came to an end.
The Second Sino-Japanese War (19371945), a theater of World War II, forced an uneasy alliance between the Kuomintang and the Communists
== Events leading up to war ===== Tibet and the border dispute ===The 1940s saw huge change with the Partition of India in 1947 (resulting in the establishment of the two new states of India and Pakistan), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) after the Chinese Civil War in 1949

