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During this time, China began a war with Britain over their bringing of opium into China. They lost and were forced to continue trading.
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During this time period, China and Japan fought over control of Korea. Japan won and gained Taiwan.
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A rebellion group known as the "Boxers" tried to rid the country of foreigners, but Western countries drove them out of Beijing.
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In 1990, the U.S. began a policy that allowed other countries to trade with China.
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The Communist Party forms as a political party in China.
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During this time period, the Communist Party was forced out of China and fled from the Nationalists.
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When the Communist Party and Mao rose to power, the Nationalists fled to Taiwan.
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During this time Mao made people change their jobs to steel industry, causing a famine.
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Mao began the Cultural Revolution, which turned the county upside down and kept Mao in power.
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President Nixon visited China and met Mao, even though America was against communism.
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Mao dies and without him, the Cultural Revolution collapses.
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Years later, students campaigning for democracy were brutally forced out by the army. This was the place of the now iconic "Tank Man",
