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Population Growth
The population in China grew 8% in the 1800s. The land was cultivated only by 1%. Not enough food. -
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First Opium War
Also was known as the First Anglo-Chinese War. As a result of the war, Britain won trade rights, access to five treaty ports, and Hong Kong. -
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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping rebellion was a rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in China, fought religiously for regional economic conditions. -
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Second Opium War
It is also known as the Arrow War. France joined in. Britain won southern Kowloon and Western powers got trade privileges. -
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Russo-Japanese War
It started because of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. They wanted the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. -
GMD Formed
Formed by Sun Yixian. The Guomindang’s primary mission was to unify China under a republican government. -
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Yuan Shikai
Military dictator, there was an unresolved tension, impossible to unite China.
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May Fourth Movement
5,000 students from Peking University hit the streets to demonstrate against the Versailles Treaty and Japan's grabbing of land. -
First United Front
Sun Yat-sen agreed to an alliance in which CCP members joined the KMT as individuals while retaining their separate CCP memberships. -
White Terror
It is also known as the Shanghai Massacre. Guomindang forces and urban gangsters and warlord militia attacked members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shanghai. Hundreds of communists were rounded up, arrested and tortured; most were executed or assassinated.
