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The Opium Wars
The wars that were unleashed as a result of the UK's desperate, illegal attempt to stabilize its unequal trade importations with opium trading ended with a humiliation for the Chinese emperor and its society, a seed that would grow the resentment for the years to come... -
Boxer Rebellion
A Revolutionary protest that put an end to the Qing dynasty, which had ridiculously output Pu-Yi as the new king (very young). -
21 Demands
Coming just in time to crumble-down an emerging ruler, Yuan Shikai, these demands showed once again the Japanese authority in the Asian continent. This eventually led to the dismiss of Shikai and the unleash of an era of uncertainty and concern. -
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Warlord Era
Political power was divided in landlords that controlled provinces and fought with alliances for land and agricultural potential. -
Russian Revolution
Indirectly, the foreign example of the Bolsheviks gave birth to a new idea that could govern and bring balance to the people within an empire, a nation, or a province. An idea that had been proven successful and very inspirational to the masses. The only thing Mao needed was to construct and modify it based on the Chinese context: hence his rise through the peasant Maoism. -
May Fourth Movement
A social protest from behalf os the Beijing university considered as a partway event in Chinese history; led to the cultural revolution that shaped modern China. -
Treaty of Versailles
It established that the Liaodong peninsula was conceded to Japan, a thing that disturbed the Chinese society and perception of their rulers -
First United Front and its triumph over the Warlords
Created in 1924, the alliance between the GMD and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). The intended objective was to put an end to the warlord era. This overthrew Jieshi as the new leader, who decided to finish with his communist branches. -
Death of Sun Yixian
After Sun Yat-sen's death (founder and leader of the Guomindang), Jiang Jieshi adopted a much more ambitious policy, and misconstructed the GMD ideals to put an eventual enemy stamp to the CCP, but before that, his priorities made him agree a bypass to his anti-communist beliefs... -
Shangai Massacre & White Terror
Definitely, the immediate cause of the Chinese civil war and its derivants was the Shangai Massacre, the absolute demonstration of authority commanded by the heads of the GMD to put an end to its alliance with the CCP. Jieshi ordered to slaughter every communist in Shangai and China(White Terror). This caused Mao and his men to flee to Janxi and develop and rise from the shadows, which marked the beggining of the Chinese Civil War.
