China Timeline

  • Establishment of Guomindang

    The Nationalist/Capitalist Government of China.
  • Death of Sun Yixian

    He died of liver cancer at the age of 58.
  • Chiang Kai-shek kills Communists in Shanghai

    He kills 300 communist, arrest over 1000, and 5,000 communists went missing.
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    Chinese Civil War

  • Chiang Kai-shek attacks Beijing

    He took control over Canton, Beijing, and Nanking.
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    The Long March

    Communist marched in China to gain support for the communist party.
  • Establishment of the Totalitarian State

    This started in the same year Mao established the People's Republic of China.
  • Establishment of the People’s Republic of China

    It was dived by two eras which are the Mao era and the post-Mao era.
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    Five Year Plan

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    Great Leap Forward

    This was lead by Mao to change the government from an agarian to communism using rapid industrialization and collectization.
  • Cultural Revolution

    Mao wanted to enforce communism into China by removing capitalist, traditional, and cultural elements from the Chinese society.
  • Death of Mao

    He died of a heart attack and people responded very sad and then people wanted to have control over the country.
  • Chinese Economic Reforms

    There were two stages and the first one was that they opened up for trade/create buisness. The second stage was that they privatized and closed up.
  • Tiananmen Square Protests

    Students protested and they release exposing splits about the leadership. The government went and attack the unarmmed students.