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The first opium war is when china and England faught over whether or not Opium should be legalized. It started when Lin-Tse-Hsu wrote a letter to the queen of England concerning the fact that Opium was killing people but England was still selling it to them. This led to fighting between the two countries.
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There was a war between china and japan primarilly over the controll of korea.
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China did not like the idea of foriegn imperialism. Because of this China formed a group of people that fought the europeans. THe Europeans did not know what they were called so they gave them the name "Boxers."
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The europeans forced China to leave thier doors open for trade and to do buisiness with other countries.
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A communist party was formed, a few years later Mao Zedong became the leader of the communist.
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This was when the communist retreated thier attack in a way. This gave china time to recover.
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The communist were gaining so much power that that the nationalist had to flee to taiwan to be safe.
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Mao forced china to work in factories to make metal. He thought that this would make china more productive but in reality all it did was just cause famines across China. It is estimated that over 30million people died because of starvation.
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This was the peek of Mao's power he got kids to do things for him because they were the easiest to influence. He got them to write da-zai-bao about people and revolt against schools and any nationalist ideas.
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President nixon hoped to improve the relationship between China and the U.S.A.
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...Its pretty much self explanitory, but, with Mao's death the cultural revolution died down too.
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A student led protest that revealed deep political secrets. The millitary reacted and killed Thousands of people.
