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Sun Yat-sen flees Guangzhou
Conflict between warlord Chen and Sun Yat-sen forces Sun to again flee Guangzhou. -
Sun Yat-sen meets with Comintern reps
Sun Yat-sen meets with Comintern representatives Maring and Joffe and reorganises GMD -
Sun Yat-sen's forces re-take Guangzhou
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Sun-Joffe Declaration is published
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Chiang Kai-shek arrives in Moscow
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Mikhail Borodin arrives in China
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First National Congress of the re-organised GMD formalises United Front with Chinese Communist Party and Comintern
This occurred from 20 Jan 1924 to 30 Jan 1924 -
Chiang Kai-shek appointed head of Huangpu Military Academy and commander-in-chief of Nationalist Revolutionary Army
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Sun Yat-sen arrives in Beijing for talks on new national government
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Sun Yat-sen dies
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'Atrocious Incident'
British troops open fire on striking workers in Shanghai, inflaming anti-imperialist sentiment. In the wake of this event, support for the CCP swelled. -
Liao Zhongkai, leading member of left GMD, assassinated
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Start of Northern Expedition
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Nationalist government relocates to Wuhan
Nationalist government relocates to Wuhan after capturing the region on 10 October 1926 -
Nationalists capture Shanghai
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Chiang Kai-shek establishes rival Nationalist government in Nanjing
after his expulsion from the nationalist government in Wuhan on 17 April 1927 by Wang Jingwei -
Shanghai Massacre
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Left GMD expels CCP and Comintern representatives from Wuhan government
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Communist Uprising at Nanchang
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Mao's Autumn Harvest Uprising
from the 7 September 1927 to the 14 September 1927 -
Communist uprising at Guangzhou
at a Canton Commune.
Continues until the 13th -
Chiang Kai-shek elected chairman of Nationalist government of China
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Futian incident
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New Communist leadership - Wang Ming, Bo Gu and fellow 28 Bolsheviks
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Manchurian Incident
leads to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria -
First All-China Congress of Soviets at Rujin
Mao elected chairman of Jiangxi Soviet -
Japanese attack Shanghai
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New Life movement launched
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Period: to
The Long March
The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the CCP from the attacks by the GMD. The first three months of the retreat saw relentless air and ground attacks. The CCP were advised by German Otto Braun re: formation of long line to fight each attack.
Out of Jiangxi, faced relentlesss attack at Xiang River by Nationalist GMD - Red Army loses approx. 50% of fighting force. -
Period: to
Xi'an Incident
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Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Leads to Japanese invasion of China -
Period: to
Second United Front
ended by Nationalist Attack on New Fourth Army -
Nationalists set up government at Chongquing
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Japanese capture Nanjing
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Period: to
Hundred Regiments Offensive launched by Communists
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Mao's Recification Campaign formally launched
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USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima; Nagasaki bombed three days later
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Japan signs terms of unconditional surrender
