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Sun Yat Sen
Founder of Chinese Nationalist Party, first President of China. -
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, had control of China between 1927 and 1945. -
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Mao ZeDong
Leader of Chinese Communist party, took over the country in 1949 -
Republic of China established
Republic of China, a democracy, established in china. -
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Chinese Civil war
War between Chinese Comnunists and Nationalists. -
Long March begins
Retreat of Chinese red army into northern china. -
PRC established
Mao establishes captial of Communist People's Republic of China in Bejing -
Great Leap Forward
Program started by Mao designed to get China ahead of the UK in 15 years.