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First Opium War
The war started by the opium trade with Great Britain, when the emperor censured the trade because of the effect in the population, GB started the war. After the defeat of China, European powers imposed unequal treaties in China. -
The Taiping Rebellion
Rebellion with religious and political emphasis, the Manchu Dynasty was clashed. Begin and occupied Southern China. The consequences were millions of deaths by regional armies and the weakening of the Dynasty. -
First Sino-Japanese War
Was fought between China and Japan primarily over influence in Korea. The war demonstrated the failure of the Manchu Dynasty's attempts to modernize its military, especially when compared with Japan's successful Meiji Restoration. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan the prestige of the Manchu Dynasty, along with the classical tradition in China, suffered a major blow. They loss of Korea as a tributary state -
The Boxer rebellion
Movement which started against the foreign and western influences. In august 1900, thousands of foreigners, chinese christians and rebels were killed. -
The Double Tenth Revolution
Revolution that started to overthrow and defeat the government of the manchu dynasty and to establish a new Republic. After the death of the Emperor the Dynasty was ruled by pu Yi and the Prince Chun, this only make the dynasty weak, they lost control of the military and soldiers| started the rebellion in Wuchang. This ends with the Dynasty and they imposed the first president of the republic: Sun Yixian -
The Warlord era
Was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions, which were spread across the mainland regions of Sichuan, Shanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Guangdong, Guangxi, Gansu, Yunnan, and Xinjiang.
The era began when Yuan Shikai died in 1916, and lasted until 1928 when the GMD officially unified China through the Northern Expedition, marking the beginning of the Nanjing decade. -
The May 4th Movement
Was an anti-imperialist, cultural and political movement growing out of students and professors in Beijing protesting against the Chinese govt weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, who involve giving Shandong to japan . This event mark the upsurge of the GMD party (nationalist) -
The First United Front
The GMD and the CCP wanted to unified China and defeat the warlords, they form together the front. By the Northern expedition they crushed the warlords unifying China, both parties know that was only by a certain time they could be together because they shared different ideology. -
The White Terror
Jiang decided that the popular support to communism in his party has to become to an end. He expelled all communist of the GMD, this attack reached to a Massacre of communists in Shanghai named the White Terror -
The Jianxi Soviet
The CCP were forced to retreat into Jianxi in order to survive the GMD attacks, they were able to spread their ideas in this province and maintain safe, they based their ideas in marxism about the revolution and the base of the revolution: the peasants.
