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Mao Zedong is born
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Manchuria
Japan invaded Manchuria and set up a fake Chinese government under a Japanese control. Japanese troops had pushed south from Manchuria, and took control of territory along China's coast. -
The Long March
Chiang Kai-Shek's campaign toward snuffing out Chinese communism forced Mao to lead his followers on the Long March in 1934. 100,000 communists attempted to flee to Shaanxi Providence but only 5-20% made it. -
Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking was an event where Japanese troops raped, looted, murdered and pillaged throughout the Chinese capital of Nanking for several weeks. A rough estimate of the lives lost is about a quarter million Chinese people. -
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong
For a long time, the Communists under Mao Zedong and Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek didn't have the best relationship, so they agreed to focus instead on defeating foreign invaders instead of destroying each other. It was basically an agreement to stay out of each other's way. -
The establishment of the People’s Republic of China
After Mao's announced the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-Shek and his Army retreated to the island of Taiwan, and took with them the entire government apparatus of the Republic of China. One and a half million Chinese had followed the nationalist government there. Once Chiang settled in Taiwan, he declared martial law, suppressed the culture and language of the native Taiwanese, and made plans to retake mainland China, but those plans never came to be. -
Hundred Flower Campaign
A period of time where the PROC encouraged citizens to state their concerns about communism -
The Great Leap Forward
The Great leap forward was a plan where land would be taken over by the state and worked on in a series of communes. Engineers worked in the fields, and farmers working on building factories. When both of the groups failed,Mao viewed it as a lack of devotion to the movement, not a lack of required skills.The resulting famine killed tens of millions people, which was a sizable chunk of China's population. By the end of the Great Leap Forward, China had little to nothing to show for it. -
Cultural Revolution
The Great Leap Forward effectively stopped economic growth in China. But the Cultural Revolution had threatened the base of Chinese culture. People were persecuted, with offenders either killed or sent to camps where they were brainwashed. -
Mao Zedong dies
