Causes of the first period of the Chinese civil war

  • Taiping Rebellion

    Taiping Rebellion
    The Taiping Rebellion spread throughout southern China, this religious / political movement that began the move away from centrakized control, the result of this rebellion was the warloard era.
  • The death of the emperor of the manchu dynasty

    The death of the emperor of the manchu dynasty
    the political weakness of the manchu dynasty intensified with the death of the emperor and the succession of pu yi
  • double tenth revolution

    double tenth revolution
    the ruler dynasty was overthrown by this revoution to make a republic
  • creation of the chinese republic

    creation of the chinese republic
    delegates form the independent provinces gathered in nanjing to declare the creation of the chinese republic
  • Yuan Shikai became president of the chinese republic

    Yuan Shikai became president of the chinese republic
    Yuan Shikai accept to be the new president in exchange for the end of manchu rule in china.
  • creation of the GMD

    creation of the GMD
    Yuan ruled china as a military dictator, regionalism continued under yuans rule and became the principal obstacle to a united china, so suns reform its party as the GMD and declare itself a parliamentary party
  • yuans declare itself emperor

    yuans declare itself emperor
    in this point he lost the support of the military and stood down, he died 3 months later.
  • Creation of the first united front

    Creation of the first united front
    this movement was created to get rid of the warlords and create a unified china whit the GMD and CCP colaborating
  • GMD after the dead of sun and creation of the CCP

    GMD after the dead of sun and creation of the CCP
    the GMD make a little progress in their three principles, also the general jiang jieshi took the power of the GMD and the CCp was created
  • the GMD attack the CCP

    the GMD attack the CCP
    this was the inmediate cause of the civilwar, after the winning against warloards, the two ideologies were confront, the general jiang start to attack the CCP, one example is the white terror in shingai, the CCP was nearly crushed by the end of the 1927, the CCp scape to the mountains of jiangsi but the GMD persued them, the civil war had begun.