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Opium wars
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China -
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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion (Taiping Civil War) was a large-scale rebellion (civil war) in China fought between the established Manchu Qing dynasty and the Christian millenarian movement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom -
The Fall of Manchu(Qing) Dynasty
China began to lose power over its peripheral regions. -
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Yuan Shikai (presidence)
He was the first President of the Republic of China. In the meanwhile, Sun Yat-Sen formed a party called Guomindang (GMD) in 1912 and declared itself a parliamentary party. -
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Warlord era
It was when the control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions, which was spread across in the mainland regions of Sichuan, Shanxi, Qinghai, Ningxia, Guangdong, Guangxi, Gansu, Yunnan, and Xinjiang -
May Fourth Movement
Students led a mass demonstration in Beijing against the warlords,
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GMD attacks CCP
GMD attacked supporters of the communist party, the GMD officially declared war and attacked the CCP in July 1928. -
outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war
Conflict that broke out when China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory. -
End of the first stage of the Chinese Civil War – the Second United Front
Talks on unification between the two sides broke down, and a full-scale civil war ensued between the communists and the KMT. -
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
