Causes of Chinese Civil War

By Ricardo Díaz Méndez

  • The Taiping Rebellion

    The Taiping Rebellion
    A religious rebellion, it almost overthrew the Manchu dynasty as many social and religious militias from the south joined under the name of their leader, was repelled but began decentralization

  • Sun Yixian President

    Sun Yixian President
    Dr. Sun Yixian became the first official president of the newly created the Republic of China, he used his new poers to supress rebellions.

  • Double Tenth revolution

    Double Tenth revolution
    By the end of the 20th century, China was in a critical condition. The political weakness of the Manchu dynasty worsened as the emperor died and 2 year old Pu-Yi succeded the throne. in 1911, a rebellion against the empire began, then, in november, The Republic of China was created

  • Rule of Yuan Shikai

    Rule of Yuan Shikai
    Yuan Shikai was originally tasked by the emperor on the fight the insurgentshe doule crossed the empire, overthrew it along with sun yixian. GMD created

  • Warlord Era

    Warlord Era
    After the death of Yuan SHikai, china fell into despair, without succesful unification, the warlods emerged and took a piece of region fo their domains

  • May Fourth movement

    May Fourth movement
    The first social movement of china, made by all its people, started by some college students because of the unfairness of the LN favoring germany and japan

  • First United Front

    First United Front
    To overthrow the landlords and unifiy China, an alliance was created betwen nationalist gmd and socialist ccp, the era was at its end

  • The "white terror"

    The "white terror"
    After defeating the landlords, both parties parted ways into their own agendas, but the new general of the GMD was extremely anti-comunist and targeted all comunists in the cabinet of in Shanghai

  • CCP expelled to the montains

    CCP expelled to the montains
    after its massacre, only a handfull of CCP, the fear of getting.
    exectuded increased and the few CCP survivor like Mao Zedong fled to the mountains where they would establish themselves and they would keep their an anti-GMD fight

  • GMD attacks CCP

    GMD attacks CCP
    The GMD kept on after the white terror to expell all comunists from China, all provinces suffered from the GMD's tyrany and wealthy favoristism, his corrupt government was unpopular bewtween areas