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The revolution in China led to the end of the Qing Dynasty
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Sun-Yat-Sen was elected as the president of a provisional republic.
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When trying to reform China, they were competing large-scale landlords, who ruled all parts of China with small-scale armies.
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Mao becomes the founding member of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party)
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In 1925, Sun-Yat-Sen dies.
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Guomindang leader Chaing Kai Sheck got mad at the communists for trying to foment socialist revolution.
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They marched 384 days.
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Mao then became the leader of the communist party.
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Japan invaded and destroyed Chinese city Nanking. Nationalists responded by dressing like civilions and abandoning the city.
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Students and intellectuals were sent down to the country side to get a taste of what "real China" was like in an 'effort' to re-educate them. Caused many deaths.
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in 1945, it was added that CCP constitution had explicitly recognized that Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong.
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Chiang retired from presidency; Mao Zedong proclaimed People’s Republic of China; Chiang retreated to Taiwan.
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Mao declared the People's Republic of China on the day.
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Exact day of month unknown. People were accusing each other of being counterrevolutionaries and were executed. About 28,332 people lost their lives
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Exact Day and Month Unknown. The plan caused industry to go up 12%, kept inflation in check, and didn't sell too many consumer goods, so there was nothing to buy.
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Day and month unknown. There was mass starvation due to paying for weapons from USSR with grains, causing about 20 million deaths.
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- Frustrated students denounced their teachers, employers and even parents.
- Tear down tradition, by demolishing buildings and art.
- Millions of intellectuals sent to field, many being persecuted and killed.
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Mao Zedong died.
