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conflict between Britain and China in which Britain defeated China and the Great chinese empire was carved up into spheres of influence by europeans, americans and Japan
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movement that was half religious and half political, wagged between the Manchuled Quing Dynasty and the Taiping hevenly kingdom
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Also known as westernizatio, refers to a period before the disasters of the first Opium war in which the late Qing Dynasty stablished institutional reforms
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the nationalists, led by Sun Yat-sen, overthrow the Manchu empire
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In Canton, a new government based on the 3 Sun principles is constituted: nationalism, democracy and an increase in the popular standard of living
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Sun Yat-sen dies Chiang Kai-chek becomes the leader of the Koumintang
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Chiang starts attacks against the communist party, killing 6,000 people
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Chiang enter to Pekin and became the new ruler of China
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Chiang launched a series of extermination campaigns to defeat the Communists in Kiangsi, the army of the Communist Party (Red Army) uses guerrilla tactics.
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China was invaded by the Japanese troops, the Chinese Communists played a very important role in the fight against the Japanese, getting the support of the peasants through revolutionary measures put into practice
