-
Humilliation
Foreing European nations have humiliated China, for example, Great Britain in the Opium War.
China was forced to sign unequall treaties to gave euroepan powers control over chinese territory. -
Taiping Rebellion
It was a movement of religous mysticism which debilitated the Manchu dynasty and the objective was to gave people hope for a different life. -
Socio-economic factors
China was governed by the Machu Dynasty which was mostly conformed by peasantst who had and increase in taxes, rent became more expensive and the political system beacem worst. -
The May Fourth Movement
A group of students and intellectuals led a mass in Beijing against warlords traditional Chinese culture and the Japanese -
Yuan Shikai 1912-1915
Due to the Death of Yuan Shika in 1916, a desestabilization of China cause a partition in small provinces, each one with its own warlord. regionalism and provincialism was to play an important role in the course and outcome of the war. -
The CCP
It emerged in 1921 inspired by the Bolshevik reolution and the May Fourth Movement -
Alliance between GMD and CCP: Communist and Natioanlists
In 1922 both parties made and alliance aimed by a unified China out of foreign europena nations, in the same year they formed the First United Front. -
The Northern Expansion
The GMD and CCP set out on the Northern Expedition to crsh the warlords of central and northern China -
The White Terror
Jiang expellled all the communist from the GM, and his attacks on the communists reached a peak in Shanghai in the "White Terror" -
Chinese Civil War
The CCP decided that its only hope for survival was to flee into the mountains of Jiangsi. The GMD pursued them, determined them to destroy the communist. the Civil war had begun.
