Modern China

  • 1st Opium War

    1st Opium War

    Great Britain gained Hong Kong as a large trading port with special trading rights. Also, forced China to open treaty ports.
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    Modern China

  • China/Japan War

    China/Japan War

    Japan and China got into a war so Japan could expand its empire. Japan eventually wan taking over a part of China.
  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion

    Other countries came into China and chuncked it up into sections for its resources. The Chinese did not like this, so the boxers attemted to fight back.
  • Open Door Policy

    Open Door Policy

    This policy was created to increase trade within China of the foreign countries.The main point was for the countries to make money.
  • Communist Party Organized

    Communist Party Organized

    The communist party was created and Beijing was named the capital of the equalized based party.
  • The Long March

    The Long March

    In an attemp to avoid attack Mao Zedong marched the long march. The march was as extensive as 50 miles long.
  • Nationalists Flee

    Nationalists Flee

    The Nationalists flee to Taiwan to set up a new national capital for the nationalist party. This also gives power to Mao to make a communist China.
  • Great Leap Forward

    Great Leap Forward

    The Great Leap Forward was an attemp to make China into a large steel producing country. It did not work and caused major famine and even canibalism.
  • End of Alliance

    End of Alliance

    The Soviet Unnion and China had lost trust in each other and decided to break their alliance.
  • Cultural Revolution

    Cultural Revolution

    Mao had tricked many teaans into withholding struggle sessions, or public himuliation, to bring down more privleged citizens or supporters of capitalism. These teens were known as the Red Guards.
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China

    President Nixon visited China in attemped to create a treaty.
  • Mao's death

    Mao's death

    Mao died in this year causing sadness in China and the end of the Cultural revolution.
  • Tiananmen Square Massacre

    Tiananmen Square Massacre

    The massacre was an attemp to stop protests in Beijing, China.