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Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-Shek (1887–1975), Chinese statesman and military leader, who was a pivotal figure in the history of modern China. He was the commander in chief of the National Revolutionary Army he emerged as the most forceful leader of the party. -
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was born on December 26th, 1893 in the village of Shaoshan. Shaoshan was in Hunan Province of south-central China. Mao Zedong was a high ranking political leader for a Communist Party. In 1960 the leaders allowed him to divorce his third wife and marry Jiang Qing. They made Mao promise that Jiang Qing would never be active in politics Mao broke this promise the late 1960’s. Mao betrayed a great amount of Chinese people by taking away their goods to pay for rapid industrialization. -
Kuomintang
Kuomintang was the people’s party or KMT for short. In southern China made their base and, tried to get other countries as allies. The only country was the Soviet Union. Then they were trying to take over the country and, failed for many of years. They never won. -
Sun Yat-sen
Born in Guangdong Province of China on November 12, 1866, Sun Yat-sen joined his brother in Honolulu in 1879 in his shop. He became bored and went to the Church of England boarding school at Iolani in 1880. He learned English and became one of the first Chinese to obtain a Western education. He studied geography, mathematics, science, and the Bible. Sun’s life goal was to create a perfect revolution so he could become emperor of China, this plan failed. He died in March 12, 1925. -
Chinese Civil War
During the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949, Chinese communist leader and revolutionary Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China (PRC). Prior to this there were many of Civil Wars that had persisted on and off since the 1920’s. They fought for continued for years after Mao’s government, the widespread civil war had ended -
Zhang Xueliang
On the death of his father Chang became the military governor of Manchuria. He support Chiang against a rebellious northern army in 1920-30 and was made vice commander in chief of all Chinese forces and a member of the central political council. He suffered a loss of prestige and in 1936 he had Chiang kidnapped at Xi’an, to compel cooperation between the kuomintang and the communists. This was to force a declaration of war against Japan. -
Long March
After leader Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek forced people out of their base in Jiangxi. The Chinese Communists and the Red Army had to march for a couple of years. There was 100,000 soldiers when they started and, only 1,000 soldiers lived at the end of the march due to starvation and diseases. -
Zunyi
Zunyi, a city about 160 km North of Guiyang. Zunyi is a region of transportation and industrial center. Deposits of coal, bauxite and manganese ore are nearby. Major manufactures include textiles, processed food, machinery, chemicals, and fertilizer. This city is on the main rail line between Guiyang and Chongqing. Zunyi was famous for the location of the Zunyi Conference, at which Mao Zedong first came to power as leader of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Rape of Nanjing
After having captured the Nationalist Chinese capital city of Nanjing, three divisions of Japanese troops were allowed to kill, rape, loot, and burn. The Japanese were trying to take over China. The Chinese stopped them from moving forward at Shanghai but, Japanese sunk around the city to move closer to Nanjing.The Allied forces protected a quarter million refugees in Chiang. When the Japanese got to Nanjing there were over 20,000 rapes and, after they were raped they were killed. -
Sino-Japanese War
Coal mining and modern industrialization, begun here in the early 20th century by German interests, continued under joint Chinese and Japanese control in the 1920s and ’30s. Already a major industrial region by 1937, it was occupied and further developed industrially by Japan during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). In 1949 Boshan and Zichuan were merged into one municipality with the name Zibo (an abbreviation of Zichuan and Boshan).
