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China was in a desperate condition, and there was a growing feeling that the ruling Manchu dinasty should be overthrown so that China could be westernized and democracy introduced.
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The ruling dynasty was overthrown in a revolution known as the Double Tenth.
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The significance of the movement was it was dedicated to change and the rebirth of China as a proud and independent nation. The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was a practical example.
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Students led a mass demostration in Beinjing against the warlords and the foreign controll of China.
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The increasing lack of unity: indeed regionalism or provincialism
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With the abdication and death of Yuan , China lost the only image that had maintained some degree of unity and China broke up into smalls states controlled by a warlord and his private army
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The GMD and the CCP wanted to unify China , they agreed that the first step to this was to get rid of the warlords.
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Together with the communists ,the GMD set out a crush to warlords of the central and northern of China
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Both gruops had captured Hangzhou, Shanghai and Nanjing
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The GMD attacks the CCP in Shanghai
