Causes of the Chinese Civil War

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    Causes of the Chinese Civil War

    Many things had a great influence on the start of the Chinese Civil War, which involved many interests, mostly political and ideological, so let's see a little about what caused it
  • Causes of the Chinese Civil War

    Following a revolution in 1911 (which overthrew the Manchu Dynasty causing destabilitation), the new Republic failed and China continued to be exploited by foreign powers (such as European imperialists).
  • Double Tenth Revolution

    Double Tenth Revolution
    The Chinese Revolution was triggered not by the United League itself but by the army troops in Hubei who were urged on by the local revolutionary bodies not incorporated in the league. The accidental exposure of a mutinous plot forced a number of junior officers to choose between arrest or revolt in Wuhan.
  • The GMD wins the majority of the parliament

    The GMD wins the majority of the parliament
    Sun Yixian (Leader of the Guomindang A.K.A GMD) becomes provisional president of the Republic of China
  • The Japan's Twenty One Demands

    The Japan's Twenty One Demands
    Seizing the opportunity effected by the onset of war in 1914, and by its status as an Allied power, Japan presented China with a secret ultimatum in January 1915 designed to give Japan regional ascendancy over China.
    The '"Twenty-One Demands" Stablished that China immediately cease its leasing of territory to foreign powers and to ascent to Japanese control over Manchuria
  • The Warlord Era

    The Warlord Era
    The Warlord era was a period when national authority in China disintegrated and the country broke apart into a jigsaw of regions, each controlled by powerful local leaders. Warlordism was to some extent a culmination of internal divisions that emerged in late Qing China
  • The May Fourth Movement

    The May Fourth Movement
    The May Fourth Movement was part cultural revolution, part social movement. On the cultural side, the students had been inspired in the preceding two decades by Western thought, creating a feeling of frustration and dissatisfaction with Chinese tradition.
  • The Chinese Communist Party formed

    The Chinese Communist Party formed
    The CCP formed initially as the representation of the communism for China and also as an oposition, however, because of the common problem and situation, the Warlords was a shared problem between the CCP and the GMD, so they wanted to get rid of them first
  • First United Front

    First United Front
    As i said previously, the common and major problem were the warlords, so both parties allied, the CCP and the GMD to get rid of them and also of the fragmentation of China, this movement resulted succesful and the warlords ceased to exist
  • Jian Jieshi becomes the leader

    Jian Jieshi becomes the leader
    Becomes the leader of the GMD march, northern expedition lauched in June, the tension between Jiang and the communist central comitee. Jan March: communist led to strikes in central China threatened Jiang
  • The White Terror

    The White Terror
    They started kiling communist just because of being communists, and it was a big massacre
  • Sino-Japanese Influence

    Sino-Japanese Influence
    Two ideological were created to restructure order and regain central control over China which were the Communists and Nationalists, they started struggling in 1927 and were interrupted by the outbrake of the Sino-Japanese war in 1937 (the effects of this war were to have a major effect not just in China, also on the international stage)
  • Jiang in control and GMD turns against the comunists

    Jiang in control and GMD turns against the comunists
    Jiang got control of Beijing, so according to his philosophy and the opposition, he turned against the communists, and that's how the war started