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the Revolutionary alliance overthrows the last chinese emperor
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may 30th event
3,000 students protest british and Japanese atrocities -
Hirohito's Japan seizes Manchuria
In 1931, the Japanese army seized Manchuria, despite objections from the japenese parliment. -
Jiang Jieshi defeats Mao's communists and the communists flee in "the long march"
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"Marco polo" incedent-Japanese invasion of China
20 million chinese deaths -
Japan invades china in WW2 suspending the civil war
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ww2
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the communist party seizes control of china
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Mao Zedong's communist party gains support from the peasants by giving them land
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Korean war