Causes of Chinese Civil War

  • First Opium War

    First Opium War
    Great Britain through India send Opium to China in an ilegal way, so general Li Zexu was in charge of take it out of the country, he arrest opium traders, close stores and send adicts to rehabilitation.

    Li Zaxu demand foreigner surrend the opium stores, in refuse a British killed a man, China demand foreigners can´t broke chinese laws on China, and China stop exporting.
    Later England went to Hong Kong island and they didn´t have food so go to China and took some, Chinese find out, war start
  • Sino Japanese War

       Sino Japanese War
    China was forced to sign unequal treaties; they control trade, territoy and soverignity of China. The foreigners didn´t follow the laws and hey spread Christianity
  • Russo-Japanese War

    Russo-Japanese War
    Russia and Japan were fighting for territory, so they took Mnachuria and Korea and put soime railways on it.
    China loose some territory
  • Double Tenth

    Double Tenth
    The emperor died and the succession was Pu Yi, who was 2 years old so Prince Chun will rule, he increase taxation, business classes had any socio-economic progress
    The dynasty loss control and a revolutions was started, some military soldiers revolted and the rebellion spread fast. Some provinces declared independent and the creation of a republic was declared and the president was Sun Yixian
  • Manchu rule end

    Manchu rule end
    The imperial government used general Yuan Shikai to suppress the rebllion and he would be president instead of Sun Yixian with the exchange for the end the Manchu Dynasty
  • Twenty One Demands

    Twenty One Demands
    Japanese government demand control on factories, railways, ports, on China, threatening with war if don´t accept. Yuan accept loosing popularity and some provinces rebelled against him
  • Warlords

    Warlords
    Generals and military governors set up their governmnet and fight against others for having the control of China
  • May Fourth Movement

    May Fourth Movement
    A mass of students demostrate against warlords and ignite tghe Versailles settlement,
    it was stablish as the rebirth of China as a proud and independent nation
  • First United Front

    First United Front
    Gmd and CCP join to get rid of the warlords; they agreed that China needed to be free and unify China.
    The GMD crushed warlords cnetral to North of China, they ended warlord er nd announced a legitimate government of China
  • White Terror

    White Terror
    Jiang expelled communist from the GMD and attack all communist in Shanghai, and in some other cities, known as ´purification movement´that was the massacre of thousands of communist forcing CCP memebers who were left to run away and flee to the mountains Jiangsi