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Wu Chang Uprising
The Wuchang Uprising was the Chinese uprising that served as the catalyst to the Xinhai Revolution, ending the Qing Dynasty and two millennia of imperial rule and ushering in the Republic of China. -
The beginning of the Republic under Sun Yixian.
The Wuchang Uprising was the Chinese uprising that served as the catalyst to the Xinhai Revolution, ending the Qing Dynasty and two millennia of imperial rule and ushering in the Republic of China. -
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The Warlord Era
The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when the control of the country was divided among its military cliques in the mainland regions of Sichuan, Shanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia -
Jiang Jeishi takes control of the KMT
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military and political leader who led the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) for five decades and was head of state of the Chinese Nationalist government -
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The Long March, The communists escape the Nationalists
The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Chang Cheng—the “Long March" the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco. -
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The Long March
The Long March was 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 army. -
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World War 2. The KMT and Communists fought the Japanese
As Diplomat readers are well aware — and the Pacific Realist is frankly sick of —China has mounted a sustained campaign demanding that Tokyo take a “correct” view of Imperial Japan’s unspeakable crimes during WWII. -
The communists take power and the Nationalists escape to Taiwan
As they steadily lose ground to the communist forces of Mao Zedong, Chinese Nationalist leaders depart for the island of Taiwan, where they establish their new capital. Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek left for the island the following day. -
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The First 5 year plan
The first five-year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. It was implemented between 1928 and 1932. -
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The Hundred Flowers Campaign
The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement, was a period in 1956 in the People's Republic of China during which the Communist Party of China encouraged its citizens to openly -
The Great Leap Forward (The 2nd 5 year plan)
The Great Leap Forward took place in 1958. The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to moderniseChina’s economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America. -
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The Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976. -
Chairman Mao Zedong dies
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China,
