Mama B Chinese Communist Revolution By pbecker@sfcs.k12.ny.us May 4, 1839 Opium War May 4, 1842 Treaty of Nanjing (spheres of influence established) May 5, 1900 Boxer Uprising May 5, 1911 Sun Yixian takes control of China (civil war) May 5, 1925 Sun Yixian dies. Jiang Jieshi (JJ) takes over. Sep 19, 1931 Japanese invade Manchuria Oct 5, 1934 Mao's Long March Dec 13, 1937 Rape of Nankjng Aug 6, 1945 Bombing of Hiroshima Oct 1, 1949 JIeng Jieshi retreats to Taiwan. Mao forms the People's Republic of China May 5, 1958 Great Leap Forward Period: May 5, 1959 to May 5, 1962 30 million Chinese die in famine May 5, 1966 Beginning of the Cultural Revolution May 5, 1967 China detonates hydrogen bomb May 5, 1972 United States President Nixon visits China Sep 8, 1976 Mao dies Dec 5, 1978 Deng Xiaoping takes control of China. Jun 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square protest