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The Kumintang
China gained independence after WW1 during the Boxer Rebellion when they overthrew the Qing Dynasty. The new government was called the Republic of China and its goal was to end foreign control in China. The leading party was the Kumintang, the Nationalist Party lead by Sun Yixain. This his government was not able to restore order in China and many country people (like farmers) were killed by theives and robbers. Famine came to China. -
The Chinese Communist Party
Young people became disillusioned by a Western style Democratic government and thought of Communism in Russia as the way to go. A group of young men (including Mao Zedong) met in Shaghai and created the Chinese Communist Party. -
Death of Sun Yixian. New Head: Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek)
When Sun Yixian died in 1925, a new leader of the Kuomintang was appointed: Jiang Jieshi. He tried to make alliances with the Chinese Communist Party and the two worked together for sometime. Eventually, Jieshi turned on the Communist Party and many of them were killed. -
Chinese Civil War
Civil war began to break out between Jiang Jiechi's government and Mao's Communists. The communists were pushed back into the Jiangxi and Fujian provinces in the south-east. -
Nationalist Republic of China
Jiang Jieshi announce the formation of his new government, the Nationalist Republic of China. -
The Long March
In 1934-1935, Mao Zedong surivived the attack kby Jiang's government. He decided that the future of Communism and China lied in the country side with support from pesants and farmers. Mao lead over 600,000 of his followers into the moutians to escape defeat by the nationalist government. They walked nearly 6,000 miles. Chinese communists today see it as a sign of Mao's detication to his cause and what he would to for the people of China. -
Temporary Truce
The Communists and Nationalists government's civil war came to a temprary truce. Both groups had to fight to keep the Japanese from taking over China. -
Civil War Resumes
The two groups, Mao's army, now called the Red Army, and the Nationalist government fought on untiol 1949. -
the People's Rebublic of China
Mao Zedong takes control of the governmet and creates teh People's Republic of China. -
The Great Leap Forward
Mao tried to reorganize China by collective ownership of all farms and factories. The people had very little reason to work for and soon the crops began to fail and famine struck China. -
The Great Leap Forward: A Failure
The Great Leap Forward was considered a failure and abandoned. -
the Cultural Revolution
Some in China began to suggest that private ownership might not be a bad idea, and farmers and factory workers began to do work for themselves. Mao began to form his ideal of a classless society, where everyone was treated the same way and no one had anymore than someone else. -
the Red Guard
He began to urge students to leave school and join an army called the Red Guard, It was their job to remove anyone, like teachers and business manages, who prevented China from being classless. Some were put to prison, but most were killed. The result was chaos and vene Mao admited it was a mistake. The Red Guard was ended in 1976. -
Mao's Death
Mao was born on December 26, 1893, and died at age 83. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng was more moderate about his ideas even though he was with Mao in during the Long March. He allow farmers to own their own land and make desicions of what they would grow, he allowed private businesses to start, and open China to foreign investments. -
Beijing's Tiananmen Square
Deng Xiaping soon found out that when he opened China to western business; it also meant that they would get some of their ideas of Democracy. Over 10,000 students protested what they felt was corrupting the Chinese government, they called for a move toward Democracy. They went so far as to raise a statue called the Goddess of Democracy, modeled after the Statue of Liberty. The Chinese government fired and arrested thousands of protestors. The pro-democracy movement was destroyed as well. -
Death of Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping died when he was 93 while he was still in power. Hu Jintao is the current leader.
