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Opium Wars
European imperialist powers had humiliated and exploited China and caused destabilization of China`s ruling Manchu regime. Britain had defeat China in the Opium Wars -
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Taiping Rebellion
Part religious movement and part political reform movement.
Qing Dynasty vs. Celestial Kingdom of the Great Peace -
Self-Strenghtening Movement
This cause impact in China, because they want to modernize his country with fields, industry and defence -
Imperial Manchu Dynasty
Majority of the population were pesants, extremely poor. The pesants who paid the taxes that in turn paid for the Manchu Imperial court -
Boxer Rebellion
Anti-Western feeling turned into widespread violent rebellion against Westrerns, because want to fought the Qing Dynasty, they want destroy the people who had privileged position in China -
Double Tenth
The Dynasty was overthrown in a revolution, this created a republic, was in troubles, because lost control of the military, and the provinces declared independent of Beijing -
The May Fourth Movement
Students led a mass demonstration in Beijing against warlords, Ignitiate by the Versailles settlement, had given to Japan Germany`s former concessions in Shandong province.
Want to have a rebirth of China as a proud and independent nation -
Communists & Nationalists
GMD the communist government make that can have more power, and invest in that party. Then China set up his first Communist Party (CCP) and the two party agree to work together, and make a powerful nations -
Northern Expedition
They want to quit Yuxian & the warlords they fought and won, and they put respect for the population. But China was´nt unified. promise of land to the peasants, this support peasants -
White Terror
They was a great idea for Jiang expelled all communists from the GMD, but this was a powerful workers army and Jiang turned on them, using informants form the underworld of triads and gangsters.
Then they started the purification in some cities and was the massacre of communists, trade unionists and peasants leaders
