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Guomindang Party Founded
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The May 4th Demonstration
The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles -
Communist Party founded
The CPC is the sole governing party of China, although it coexists alongside eight other legal parties that comprise the United Front. It was founded in 1921, chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. -
Japanese take Machuria
In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. -
The Long March
he Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. -
The "rape" of Nanjing
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East estimated that, in an addition to children and the elderly, 20,000 women were raped. -
US atomic bombs bring Japanese surrender
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Guomindang - Communist Cival War
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Founding of People's Republic of China
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Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1961. -
The Cultural Revolution Decade
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Nixon visits Beijing
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Mao Zedong dies
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Official Reform Policy announced by Deng Xiaoping
The Chinese economic reform refers to the program of economic reforms called the People's Republic of China that was started in December 1978 by reformists within the Communist Party of China, led by Deng Xiaoping. -
Student Protest in Tiananmen Square and Massacre
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Beijing Olympics
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Regime headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping
