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Alliance Overthrows Chinese Emperor
The Xinhai Revolution, or the Hsin-hai Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1911 or the Chinese Revolution, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and established the Republic of China. -
Death of Yuan
Yuan death in 1916 left a power vacuum in China; the republican government was all but shattered. -
Mao Zedong Communist Party Gains Support
Mao Zedong gained support by offering schooling and health-care. -
Shanghai Massacre
April 12 Incident, was a large-scale purge of Communists from the Kuomintang in Shanghai, ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on 12 April 1927, during the Northern Expedition. -
Communist Party Seizes Control of China
Civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China -
Chang Kai-Shek
Rled the chinese military and he was a political leader who led the kuominatang for five decades and was head of state of the chinese nationalist government between 1928 and 1949. -
Japan Invades China
Japanese imperialist policy aiming to dominate China politically and militarily to secure its vast raw material reserves and other resources. -
Jiang defeats Mao.
An uprising in Vienna leads to the immediate resignation of the long-serving chancellor Klemens von Metternich. -
World War II
Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan. The Japanese capture the Chinese capital, Nanjing, and massacre at least 300,000 inhabitants within a few weeks. -
Long March
The Long March began Mao Zedong's ascent to power, whose leadership during the retreat gained him the support of the members of the party. The bitter struggles of the Long March, which was completed by only about one-tenth of the force that left Jiangxi, would come to represent a significant episode in the history of the Communist Party of China, and would seal the personal prestige of Mao and his supporters as the new leaders of the party in the following decades. However the true role of Mao i
