China Timeline

  • Establishment of Guomindang

    Nationalist/ Capitalist establishment of China
  • Death of Sun Yixian

    Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China.
  • Chiang Kai-shek kills Communists in Shanghai

    Chiang killed communist causing a split between the kmt left and right wings allowing Chiang to take control.
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    Chinese Civil War

    The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang and forces of the Communist Party of China.
  • Chiang Kai-shek attacks Beijing

    Chiang attacks Beijing and takes over.
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    The Long March

    The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China.There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. The Long March began Mao Zedong's journey to power, which gained him the support of the members of the party.
  • Establishment of the People’s Republic of China

    Mao's movements from the early 1950s on, included Land Reform, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, Also when the Establishment of Totalitarian State for China occured.
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    Five Year Plans

    First Plan (1953–1957)
    Second Plan (1958–1962)
    Third Plan (1966–1970)
    Fourth Plan (1971–1975)
    Fifth Plan (1976–1980)
  • The Great Leap Forward

    The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1961
  • Cultural Revolution

    The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution, was a social-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966
  • Death of Mao

    Mao was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
  • Chinese Economic Reforms

    The Chinese economic reform was started in December 1978 by reformists within the Communist Party of China led by Deng Xiaoping.
  • Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

    The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement. The protest were student-led demonstrating he split in Chinas political leadership