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Chinese Civil War
Inside China, the Nationalist and Communist fight for control and lands in it. -
Fall of the Quing Dynasty
The Revolutionary Alliance, with Sun Yixian as a leader and the Kuomintang as a supporter, overtrowed the last emperor of the Quing Dynasty. Which meant the end to the Quing dynasty, which had been rulling for many years. -
Sun became president of the New Republic of China
Ater the Quing emperor was overthrowed, Sun was named president of the New Republic of China. -
Yuan Shikai's military dictatorship
Sun turned the presidency to Yuan Shikai, who was a powerful general that didn't wanted a democracy. So by 1913, he imposed a military dictatorship. -
Mao Zedong starts as a revolutionary
Mao Zedong was a school teacher who supported some student protesters and from there on he sarts a "new life" as a very important revolutionary. -
May Fourth Movement
A national movement that was anti-imperialist, and that was meant to be a protest against what was happening in China during/after the world war I. -
Creation of the Communist party
A group of people including Mao Zedong, got together in Shanghai to organized the Chinese Communist Party. -
Lenin steps in China
Lenin sends equipment and military advicers to the Nationalists in exchange of letting the Chinese communists to join the Kuomintang. -
red army creation
Mao Zedong created the red army, which was mostly formed by peasants. -
Nationalist troops attack Communists in Shanghai
Some nationalist forces moved to Shanghai and killed a lot of communists. The same happened in other cities, which caused a mayor loss in chinese communist population. -
Jiang becomes the president of the Nationalist republic of China
As a result of the Shanghai masacre and other masacres the came with it, Jiang became president of the Nationalistic Republic of China. -
Hunan Province attack
The nationalists attack the communists in Hunan, which is a mostly communist society. However, thay weren't able to get them out. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan gets into Manchuria and fights to get the power over it, taking advantage of the civil war that was happening in China. -
The Nationalists go again to the Communist stronghold in Hunan Province
Jiang recluted a 700,000 men army and went again to the communist stronghold in Hunan. This time, the nationalists outnumbered the communists nearly six to one. -
The long march
Communist forces went through a 6000 mile journey as they realized that they had faced a defeat against Jiang's army. -
Japan attacks the Chinese during the World War II
Japan attacks China in a very fierce way, by bombing and attacking every village. This cause a major destruction in Chinese villages and a lot of new land for Japan. -
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Nationalists and Communists fight against Japan.
During the world war II (Germany vs the Allies), Nationalists and Communists temporarily united to fight against Japan. -
Japan leaves
Japan looses against the red army and leaves China. -
Chian Kai Shek takes lands
Chiang Kai Shek attacks and conqueres the places that the Japanese had left with the help of the U.S. -
Birth of the Popular Republic of China
Mao Zedong creats the Popular Republic of China.