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