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Sun Yixian's revolutionary alliance overthrows the Qing dinasty. Quing dinasty ends after ruling since 1644
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Sun turned over the presidency to Yuan who betrays democratic ideas and starts ruling as a military dictator.
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After Yuan dies there is caos in China and a civil war breaks out. Sun tries to orerganize everything again.
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Government in Beijing, hoping to get a good ally, declare war against Germany.
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Angry students gather shouting "Boycott Japan" in protest. Mao Zedong, a teacher at that time, supports these students.
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Group organizes and meets for foudation of the Chinese Communist Party, whose main foundator was Mao Zedong.
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Lenin preached worldwide revolution so he helps China's Nationalist government by sending them military advisors and equipment for war.
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Jiang Jieshi/ Chiang Kai-shek takes head of the Kuomintang (Natiolalists).
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Nationalist troops and armed gangs move into Shangai and kill communist leaders and union members. They nearly wipeout the communist party; survivors hide.
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Jiang becomes president of the Nationalist Republic of China.
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Peasants fight on Mao's side (communist). The nationalist army tries to drive them out but they fail.
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Japan invades Manchuri, simultaneously, World War II was starting.
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Jiang's army surrounds the Communist. They (Mao's army had 100,000 people) escape to the mountains into a 6,000 mile long treck that lasts a year. At the end, only 30,000 survive
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After invading Manchuria, Japan decides to invide more of China and starts attacking China.
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Communist and Nationalist stop fighting between them to fight against Japan. Though Communist didn't have foreign support, they were very good at fighting Japan, different from the Nationalist that were very bad.
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Most of northern China is controlled by Mao's red army (communist).
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Communist and Nationalists start fighting again, but Nationalist did very little to gain popularity and remained with their "good economy" until China's economy started collapsing.
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China's major cities fall to the Red Army one by one (well trained in guerrilla warfare).
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After the remainings of Jiang's army fled South, Mao finally wins control of China.
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Mao creates agrarian reforms, all of the peasants support MAo because he reorganizes lands. Soviet and China sign a friendship treaty.
