Causes of the first period of the Chinese civil war

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    opium war

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    taiping rebellion

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    sino-japanese war

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    The First People’s Republic of China Proclaimed, fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty

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    Yuan Shikai (Sun’s successor as President) negotiates Japan’s Twenty-one Demands.

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    Founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shanghai.

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    Nationalists launch anti-communist purge. Nanjing Decade begins.