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After years of trade, European contries wanted to control China's trade.
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a series of conflicts that China launched caused to loose some indpendence.
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way back in the 1600s a group called the machu took over China mongolia and korea. It was slowly weakened and overthrown in 1900.
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A revoloutonary group led by Sun Yat-sen forced the last emperor out of power. This group formed the firsed Republic of China.
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When Sun Yat-sen died the revoloutionaries split into a Nationalist and a Communist party.
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Chiang Kai-shek united china under a nationalist government. the Communists opposed him and a civil war began.
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The Communists defeat the Nationalists and they form the Peoples Republic of China under Mao Zedong
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Mao puts everything under his form of Communism called Maoism where only one politcal party is allowed Communism.
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Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalists retreat to Taiwan where they set up their own government.
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The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernise China’s economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America.
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A planing error in the government causes a famine that kills about 30 million people.
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Mao began a movement called the Cultual Revoloution. It was a attempt to make everyone live a peasant way of life. millions of people were sent to work on farms. Anyone who opposed this were imprisioned or killed.
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Millions of people were sent to work on farms. Anyone who opposed this were imprisioned or killed.
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Tiananmen Square is where alot of nonviolent protests aganst the government happened.
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The chinese millitary attacked protesters and pany peopled were killed.