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Inside China, the Nationalist and Communist fight for control and lands in it.
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The Revolutionary Alliance, with Sun Yixian as a leader and the Kuomintang as a supporter, overtrowed the last emperor of the Quing Dynasty. Which meant the end to the Quing dynasty, which had been rulling for many years.
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Ater the Quing emperor was overthrowed, Sun was named president of the New Republic of China.
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Sun turned the presidency to Yuan Shikai, who was a powerful general that didn't wanted a democracy. So by 1913, he imposed a military dictatorship.
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Mao Zedong was a school teacher who supported some student protesters and from there on he sarts a "new life" as a very important revolutionary.
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A national movement that was anti-imperialist, and that was meant to be a protest against what was happening in China during/after the world war I.
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A group of people including Mao Zedong, got together in Shanghai to organized the Chinese Communist Party.
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Lenin sends equipment and military advicers to the Nationalists in exchange of letting the Chinese communists to join the Kuomintang.
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Mao Zedong created the red army, which was mostly formed by peasants.
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Some nationalist forces moved to Shanghai and killed a lot of communists. The same happened in other cities, which caused a mayor loss in chinese communist population.
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As a result of the Shanghai masacre and other masacres the came with it, Jiang became president of the Nationalistic Republic of China.
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The nationalists attack the communists in Hunan, which is a mostly communist society. However, thay weren't able to get them out.
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Japan gets into Manchuria and fights to get the power over it, taking advantage of the civil war that was happening in China.
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Jiang recluted a 700,000 men army and went again to the communist stronghold in Hunan. This time, the nationalists outnumbered the communists nearly six to one.
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Communist forces went through a 6000 mile journey as they realized that they had faced a defeat against Jiang's army.
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Japan attacks China in a very fierce way, by bombing and attacking every village. This cause a major destruction in Chinese villages and a lot of new land for Japan.
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During the world war II (Germany vs the Allies), Nationalists and Communists temporarily united to fight against Japan.
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Japan looses against the red army and leaves China.
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Chiang Kai Shek attacks and conqueres the places that the Japanese had left with the help of the U.S.
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Mao Zedong creats the Popular Republic of China.