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Causes of the first period of the Chinese Civil War

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    Manchu Dynasty

    A terrible time where peasants were like slaves of the Warlords, they were poor, they had to pay excesive taxes and had terrible life conditions, population grew and lost their jobs and people started complaining about it
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    Taiping Rebellion

    A movement where missionaries from Europe were prosecuted and vanished
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    Boxer Rebellion

    It was a movement agains the foreign influence in China like comerce, politics, religion and technology, foreign visitors and christians were killed in order to achieve the goal of this revolt
  • Pu Yi, the new Emperor

    Pu Yi, the new Emperor
    Pu Yi took the throne with 2 years old, this did not helped the situation in China, because there was bad harvests, warfare, rebellions, overpopulation, economic disasters, and foreign imperialism, and chiinese were not happy about it
  • Double Tenth Revolution

    Double Tenth Revolution
    The people forced a Republic, provinces declared independent from the capital and Yuan Shikai took power
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    Rule of Yuan Shikai

    Yuan Shikai was in the president of the Republic of China,
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    Warlord Era

    After the end of Yuan Shikai Warlords took independent control of the territory, causind a greater divition of the land and an increase of the sense of nationalism
  • May Fourth Movement

    May Fourth Movement
    Movement started in Beijing by students and Intellectuals against the warlords and in favor of the rebirth of China as a powerful nation
  • First Unted Front

    First Unted Front
    Alliance made between the GMD and the CCP in order to end with the Warlords and Unify China and to get over the foreign Imperialist Powers
  • GMD attack to the CCP

    GMD attack to the CCP
    CCP was obtaining popularity among the people, and the GMD did not like that, Jiang Jieshi expelled communists from the GMD and started killing communists among China because he prefered the Warlords,