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Chinese Communism History

By Champ Manning

  • The Revolutionary alliance overthrows the last Chinese Emperor

    Revolution succeeds at Wuchang, the Qing dynasty collapsed.
  • May Fourth Movement

    May Fourth Movement

    Anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement starting from student demonstrations. They protested the Chinese governments weak response in the Treaty of Versailles in Beijing. Sparked national protests and arroused a feeling of nationalism.

  • Communist party seizes control of China

    Beginning of a new age in China and the end of an old one.

  • Formation of Communist Party

    It allowed the people an option of government.

  • Mao Sedong's Communist Party gains support from the peasants by giving them land

    The people support the Communist Party because they see it as a saving grace by getting land.

  • January 28 Incident

    Short war before the Second Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan.
  • Jiang Jieshi defeat's Mao's communists and the communists flee in "the Long March"

    Jiang Jieshi defeat's Mao's communists and the communists flee in "the Long March"

    6,000 mile journy to northwest Russia to establish a new base.

  • Xi'an Incident

    The Communists and Nationalists made peace so they can fight the common enemy: Japan. Japan had kidnapped Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
  • Japan invades China in WWII suspending the civil war

    Japan invades China in WWII suspending the civil war

    Japan wanted to become a big world power but didnt have any resources so they invaded China in hopes of gaining land which supplies resources.

  • Nixon visists China

    First US president to visit Communist China.