Causes of the Chinese Civil War

  • The Taiping Rebellion and self-strengthening movement

    was a religious movement and part of the political reform movement and the self-strengthening movement divided china
  • Political Weaknesses

    the foreign countries gave China a humiliating defeat and they took advantage of it to take whatever the countries wanted
  • The Russo-Japanese war

    this war did not only affect the Russian people but the Chinese too after that defeat and Russia having control of a railway in china they lost territory for this
  • PU-YI

    He was the new emperor but it was 2 year old and also a puppet to the people that wnte to rule China
  • Guomindang

    Sun Yixian created this party because another one was a dictator and he wanted to get rid of him and the Warlords
  • May 4th movement

    this was because of a serious problem that republicans and democrats of China have and also that in the end of WW1 they didn't have back their territory and the government was useless the communists and GMD take action
  • First United Front

    The GMD and The CCP decided to make an alliance to take down the warlords that already had fought to much time but something would make them break that alliance
  • GMD attack CCP

    After they took down the Warlords the GMD had other plans for the CCP and the leader of the GMD didn't like communists so after they defeated the warlords he sent their army to kill every member of the CCP