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The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China
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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
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China began to lose power over its peripheral regions.
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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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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
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Students led a mass demonstration in Beijing against the warlords,
and questioned the traditional Chinese culture and the Japanese. The May Fourth movement awakened Chinese nationalism and galvanized the GMD and CCP. -
GMD attacked supporters of the communist party, the GMD officially declared war and attacked the CCP in July 1928.
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Conflict that broke out when China began a full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory.
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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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The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
