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The Revolutionary allicance overthrows the last 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. The revolution was named Xinhai (Hsin-hai) because it occurred in 1911, the year of the Xinhai stem-branch in the sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar"(Wikipedia: Xinhai Revolution). -
Sun Yat Sen
He Was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Republican China, Sun is frequently referred to as the Father of the Nation. -
Republic of china established
A republic of China is proclaimed, with Sun Yatsen as its provisional president. Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president. -
Mao Zedong's Communist Party gains support from the pwasants by giving them land
"Thus increasing Japanese power in China, in 1919 Chinese protesters began calling for a stronger more independent China. Some impressed by the result of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mao Zedong was the led of Communists. He gained support for Communists cause in southeastern China by redistributing land to the peasants and offering them schooling and health care" (Wikianswers). -
The long communist party seizes control of china
To defeat these warlords, who had seized control of much of Northern China, the ... During the 1920s, Communist Party of China activists retreated underground or to ... Of the 90,000-100,000 people who began the Long March from the Soviet... (Wikipedia: Chinese Cival War). -
Shanghai Massacre
also known as the 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. -
Chang Kai-Shek
He ruled 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. He led the suppression of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Jiang Jieshi Defeats Mao's communists and the communists flee in "the Long March"
The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. The most well known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October, of 1934 (Wikipedia: Long March). -
Japan invades china in WWII suspending the civil war
3.1 Italian invasion of Ethiopia (1935); 3.2 Spanish Civil War (1936–39); 3.3 Japanese invasion of China (1937); 3.4 Japanese invasion of the ..... the German Army High Command decided to suspend the offensive of a considerably depleted -
Great leap Forward
Mao Zedong imposes on China a Great Leap Forward, an attempt at industrialization that results in economic chaos and widespread famine.
