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Sun Yat Sen
Dr. Sun Yat-sen learned that the Wuchang Uprising against the Quing (Manchu) Dynasty broke out. Over ten provinces of China declared independence, which caused the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty to disintegrate quickly. -
Republic of China Established
On January 1st of 1912, the Republic of China was established in Nanjing after 2,000 years of Imperial rule.
Sun Yat Sen led the Republic. He believed that the only way for China to move forward in the early 1900's was for the country to become a republic and adopt western ways in industry, agriculture etc. Unless China did this, Sun was convinced that she was doomed to remain backward by western standards. -
Mao Zedong
Had read Russian communist,Karl Marx literature. Became a founder member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and set up a branch in Hunan -
Nationalists Allie with Communists against Warlords
In 1923, the Kuomintang (KMT) nationalist party had allied with the CCP to defeat the warlords who controlled much of northern China. -
Chiang Kai-shek
Guomindang party’s chairman and commander-in-chief of the army. Ordered attacks on the Communist Army that had formed and was led by MaoZedong -
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Long March
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Long March
After the KMT surrounded them, Mao led his followers on the 'Long March', a 6,000 mile journey to northwest China to establish a new base.
There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. -
Mao forms the People's Republic of China
shortly after the end of World War Two, The Communists fought the KMT and were victorious, Mao proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Chiang Kai-shek fled to the island of Taiwan. -
Communist Proraganda begins
Four Pests Campaign
Chinese government began Patriotic Health Campaigns to improve sanitation and public health. They began with the "the four pests": rats, sparrows, flies and mosquitoes. Later sparrows were removed from the list, and fleas and lice added. then came snails because they carried disease . these pesets also ate food, chewed electrical wires, and thus disrupted the social fabric that Mao Zedong was trying to build in China -
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Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward
See handout -
Great Leap Forward is a FAILURE
GREAT LEAP FORWARDFamine-
1. Locust swarm- Sparrows were not there to eat the locusts
2. weather was not good- Floods and droughts.
Mass starvation was largely confined to the countryside, where, as a result of drastically production statistics, very little grain was left for the peasants to eat.
at least 2.5 million people were beaten or tortured to death and 1 to 3 million committed suicide
In total, about 30-42 MILLION people died.
