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Quing Government disappoints reformists
The Qing government unveils its first ‘constitutional cabinet’. It is conformed mainly by the loyalty and the Manchun, which disappoints reformers -
Fall of the Qing Dynasty
The Qing Dynasty´s long empiren falls -
Republic of China
The Republic of China is born. Sun Yixian is appointed as the new leader -
Military Dictarorship
His Military Dictarorship causes revolts -
Yuan dies - Chaos Reigns
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Chinese government declares war agains Germany
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May Fourth Movement
Angry students yell "Down with the European imperalists!". It was led by Mao Zedong, a young schoolteacher. After a while, workers, manufacturers and other people joined the cause. -
The Communist Party in China
After meeting several times in 1920, a group of young intellectuals who believe in Karl Marx´s ideas created the Communist Party in 1921. -
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Sun Yixian seeks help
After a failed and disapponting attempt of receiving help from Western democracies, the leader of the Nationalist party, which had set up a government in South China, Sun Yixian decided to ally the Communist Party with the Kuomintang in order to unite all revolutionary actions. He then accepted help from Lenin (USSR), which is why, in exchange for alloqing Chinese communists join the Kuomintang, he received military advisers and equipment from Russia. -
Nationalist´s and Communist´s clash
After Sun Yixian´s death, Jiang Jieshi, which headed the Kuomintang, fought, with the help of the Communists, the warlord. -
Jiang betrays Communists
After turning agaisnt Communists, Jian leads Nationalist troops into Shanghai, where they kill a lot of communist leaders and trade union members. -
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Nationalist´s vs Communist´s
Shanghai´s attack led to an agressive massacre, led by Nationalist´s, against communists,which almost wiped them out. -
Jiang becomes president of the Nationalist Republic of China
United States and Great Britain recognize the new country. However, after the Shanghai massacre, Russia doesn´t recognize it -
Peasents join Communists
After failure in an attempt to improve their lifes from Jian, the peasents joined Mao Zedong (Leader of the Communists). He started to prepare a revolution according to Lennin's ideas, which said that a revolution could take place in a large rural country, where peasents would be the true revolutionaries. He did all of this organization in Russian Cities -
Civil War starts
Mao establishes in south China, where he starts to recruit an army A bloody civil wars starts between Communists and Nationalists -
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China's Civil War
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Nationalist's win
Jian gathers an army of 700,000 men to surround Communists. They had mucho more soldiers so Communists leaders realized they were about to be defeated -
The Long March
Communists forces fled through The Long March, or a 6,000 mile-long journey yo leave the country . Abiut a 100,000 people began the march, but only from 10,000 to 30,000 reached North China, where they were safe from Jiang and his army. Even though they had to retreat, the Communist party gained followers -
Japan gains a lot of Chinas territory
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Japan invades China
The Japanese see in China's revolution an opportunity to expand their empire, which is why they attack China. In 1937, the Japanese launched an all-out invasion. A lot of Chinese people die due to bombing in cities or starvation. -
Japan controls a lot of Chinese territory
This event causes a truce between Jian and Mao, so some of the communists and nationalists join to fight the invasion -
Beginning of World War I
