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The Qing dynasty was overthrown by Sun Yixian
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Sun Yixian became president of the new Republic of China
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Sun turned over the presidency to Yuan Shikai, a powerful general he ruled as a military dictator
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Yuan died in 1916, and because of that civil war broke out and warlords conquered lands
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China declared war on Germany to hopefully get some land but mistakenly, in the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies gave Japan the territory
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3,000 angry students gathered in Beijing to protest against Japan and the "European Imperialists"
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A group met in Shanghai to organize the Chinese Communist Party and Mao was one of its founders
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Lenin started sending advisors and equipment to the Nationalists
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Chiang Kai-shek replaces Sun Yixian after his death as the leader of the Kuomintang
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Nationalists massacred the cmmunists in Shanghai and other cities and sent the Communists into hiding
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Jiang (Shiang Kai-shek) becomes President of the Nationalist Republic of China
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Nationalists and Communists started having bloody civil wars
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Jiang surrounds the Communists with an army of 700,000 men
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6,000 mile journey by the Communists into the mountains
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Japanese launched an all-out invasion of China and by 1938 had a large part of China
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Mao Zedong's army controlled most of northern China
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A huge civil war starts with the US helping the Nationalists and Russia helping the Communists
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Mao gains control of all of the People's Republic of China
