SRL for [impelled]: At a key moment when the country and the people were facing calamity , the two generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng , under the influence of the CCP 's united front policy of resisting the Japanese and [impelled] by the Anti - Japanese and National Salvation Movement of the nation 's people , and out of national spirit and true patriotism , initiated without hesitation an armed remonstrance in Xi'an on December 12 , 1936 and demanded that Chiang Kai - shek halt the civil war and join with the Communist in fighting Japan .
ARG-0: by the Anti - Japanese and National Salvation Movement of the nation 's people