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Political weakness + influence from foreigners
After the Opium Wars, China was under foreign reign as the country was forced to sign treats which were only favorable to the other nations (control over Chinese territory, sovereignty & trade) -
Life as a peasant
They had to harvest land, pay taxes, deal with floods, starvation and most of them were in extreme poverty. Inmigration to the big cities meant unemployment with the late update in technology and cheap imports. This was in the Manchu imperial times -
Double Tenth Revolution
With the purpose to overthrown Manchu dynasty, this movement tried to restore the country and put a democracy. It didn't happen. Revolution was incomplete and Dr. Sun Yixian ended being corrupted -
Yuan Shikai & GMD
After Yixian ceded the presidency to Yuan Shikai, this person ended being a military dictator. This impeded China to be united. That year, the GMD was created by Sun -
Yuan Shikai's death
This was a major event. Even though he broke China's so-called Republic as proclaiming himself emperor, he gave stability to the country -
May Fourth Movement
Dedicated to change and to give China a chance to be reborn as an independent nation, away from foreign influence. Students, and those involved, saw imperialism was one of the most important problems in China -
Warlords Era
China was divided and controlled by different warlords. Feelings of both humiliation and nationalism started to rose up -
White Terror
General Jiang made a purification movement inside GMD against communists firstly in Shanghai, then to the rest of the country. Were fixated to eradicate communism -
Northern Expedition
After General Jiang Jieshi (from the GMD) saw warlords were the reason China wasn't united, he eradicated them along with the Communist Party; mainly the warlords from the center and northern sides of China were abolished -
GMD & CCP
Ideology was the reason these two movements got separated ways. Also because communism was being more popular among peasants, which Jiang didn't like at all
