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End of the Qing Dynasty.
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Sun Yat Sen declared President.
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The Guomindang, led by Chiang Kai Shek were competing with the communists to reform China.
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Mao founds the Communist party!
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Sun Yat Sen dies.
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The Guomindang and Communists lost their alliance because Chiang Shek became angry with the Communists.
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The Long March is en route for 368 days. Rise of Mao Zedong to preeminence.
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Mao becomes a leader of the Communist party.
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The Japanese destroy the Chinese city of nanking. The Nationalists abandoned.
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Educated students were sent to the countryside to be re-educated with the peasants.
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Chiang Shek retires from his presidency.
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Mao declares "Peoples Republic of China".
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28,332 people are accused of being spies or counterrevolutionaries and then executed.
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China's first 5 year plan killed private industry, weakened capitalism, and gave the state control.
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Millions of people are persecuted, there is mass destruction, and intellectuals are sent to work in the countryside alongs-side peasants.
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Mao dies.
