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The Chinese Revolution led to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It began when a bomb accidentally exploded
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Sun Yat Sen was declared president of the provisional republic in January of 1912. A new government was created with a Senate and a Lower house and was supposed to create a new constitution
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Large scale landlords with small-scaled armies ruled all parts of China because of uneffective leadership by Sun Yat Sen and Yuan Shikai.
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The Guomindang, led by Chiang Kai Shek, had competition in trying to reform China with big landlords so they required the help of the CCP.
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Mao was one of the founders of The Chinese Communist Party.
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Guomindang leader Chiang Kai Shek got into an argument with the communists because they tried to foment a socialist revolution (the communists continuted with their plan anyways)
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In 1934-55, Mao and his fellow communists made a miraculous, and harrowing escape trekking from southern China to the mountains in the north. They walked for 368 days and nearly 5,000 miles.
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Mao is the founder of the People's Republic of China. He was responsible to make China modern, and change the status of women.
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The Japanese destroyed the city of Nanking. As a result, Nationalists lost their prestige among their fellow Chinese citizens
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Mao sent students and intellectuals were sent into the countryside to give them a taste of what “real China” was like in an effort to re-educate them.
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Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. The announcement ended the civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party.
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Mao declared the the creation of the People’s Republic of China.
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Between Oct. 1950-August 1951, 28,332 people were accused of being spies or counterrevolutionaries and executed.
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In 1953-57 China’s first 5 year plan resulted in:
Industry growth, peasants growing a lot of grain and selling it at low prices, and China’s population increased. -
In 1958-60 the Great Leap Forward mainly resulted in people dying (20 million), and less food for peasants.
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From 1960-69 the Cultural Revolution resulted in schools closures (which left an entire generation with no formal education), millions were persecuted, many were sent to the countryside, and countless historical and religious artifacts were destroyed,
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