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Establishment of Guomindang
in 1905 the origanal nationalist/revalutionary alliance had been formed -
Establishment of Guomindang
In 1912 sun yat-sen founded the nationalist party out of the original alliance. He saw that he needed a formally organized party. -
Death of Sun Yixian
sun died of cancer in 1925 -
Chiang Kai-shek kills Communists in Shanghai
The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, sometimes called the April 12 Incident, was the violent suppression of Communist Party organizations in Shanghai by the military forces of Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang -
Chiang Kai-shek attacks Beijing
in the Central Plains War, Beijing was taken on June, 1928, from an alliance of the warlords Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan -
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the long march
a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army -
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Establishment of the People’s Republic of China
The history of the People's Republic of China is often divided distinctly by historians into the "Mao era" and the "post-Mao era". The Mao era lasted from the founding of the People's Republic on October 1, 1949 to Deng Xiaoping's grip onto power and policy reversal at the Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress on December 22, 1978. -
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The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1961 -
the Cultural Revolution
the Cultural Revolution, was a social-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966. Set into motion by Mao Zedong -
mao's death
Mao Zedong died nearly four days later just after midnight at 00:10 on September 9, 1976 at age 82.