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The frustration of the Qing Court
Frustrated by the Qing court's resistance to reform and by China's weakness, young officials, military officers, and students began to advocate the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the creation of a republic. They were inspired by the revolutionary ideas of Sun Yat-sen. -
Wuchang Uprising
A revolutionary military uprising, the Wuchang Uprising, began on 10 October 1911, in Wuhan. The provisional government of the Republic of China was formed in Nanjing on 12 March 1912. Sun Yat-sen was declared President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government -
The Revolutionary alliance overthrows the last Chinese emperor
The Xinhai Revolution, or the Hsin-hai Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1911 or the Chinese Revolution, was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and established the Republic of China. -
The death Yuan
Yuan death in 1916 left a power vacuum in China; the republican government was all but shattered. This ushered in the warlord Era, during which much of the country was ruled by shifting coalitions of competing provincial military leaders. -
Mao Zedong's communist party gains support from the peasant by giving them land
Thus increasing Japanese power in China, in 1919 Chinese protesters began calling for a stronger more independent China. Some impressed by the result of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mao Zedong was the led of Communists. He gained support for Communists cause in southeastern China by redistributing land to the peasants and offering them schooling and health care. -
May fourth movements
In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China -
The communist party seizes control of China
Was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China (CPC).[6] The war began in April 1927, amidst the Northern Expedition,[7] and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1950 -
The bitter strugles of the Kmt and Cpc
The bitter struggle between the KMT and the CPC continued, openly or clandestinely, through the 14-year long Japanese occupation of various parts of the country (1931–1945). The two Chinese parties nominally formed a united front to oppose the Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), which became a part of World War II. -
Jiang Jieshi defeats Mao's communists and the communists flee in "the Long March"
The 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. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west -
Japan invades China in WW2 Suspending the civil war
Called so after the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States
