Causes of Chinese Civil War

  • Taiping Rebellion

    Taiping Rebellion
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    Taiping Rebellion

    It was a religious and political reform movement which began the move away from centralized control
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion
    Was an anti foreign, anti colonial and anti christian uprising, to put the end of the westernization . Many of their members studied martial arts.
  • Double Tenth

    Double Tenth
    The manchu dynasty was overthrown in a revolution called the double tenth , this ocurred when the government lose control of the military , this caused that provinces declared independent from Bejing , created a chinese republic , was a triumph of regionalosm , Yuan Shikai new ruler , agreement with Sun Yixian
  • GMD

    GMD
    Sun Yat-sen created the Guomindang which was a nationalist party at first.
  • Yuan Shikai

    Yuan Shikai
    Yuan Shikai ruled China as a military dictator since 1912, but he proclaimed himself as an emperor in 1916 causing a lose of support. He died time later.
  • May Fourth Movement

    May Fourth Movement
    Students led a mass demonstration in Beijing against the Warlords , traditional chinese culture and the Japanese, this started due to the Versailles settlement which had given Japan Germany’s former concessions in shandong province. This movement was to create a rebirth of China to create an independent nation.
  • First Union Front

    First Union Front
    The GMD was in charge of Jiang Jieshi and he was a committed nationalist
    .The Chinese communist party emerged and its members were intellectuals
    The CCP and GMD worked together creating the first union front of 1922 , both agreed that the imperialist power should go.
  • Northern Expedition

    Northern Expedition
    This expedition was to crush warlords on center and northern china, this operation was a success in 1927, they took Hangzhou,Shanghai and Nanjing, and also Beijing. They destroyed the warlords.
  • White Terror

    White Terror
    GMD Expelled the communist, it was just an alliance just for convenience
    5,000 communist were shot
    ‘purification movement’
    massacre of thousands of communist, unionist and peasants leaders
    CCP moved to mountains of Jiangsi.
  • Jiagxi Soviet

    Jiagxi Soviet
    Now the CCP started to plan a new revolution in order to defend themselves and to safe their people, Mao was the leader.