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The revolution that occurs at this time ends the dynastic cycle, one that was going on for thousands of years.
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Sun Yat Sen, then Chaing Kai Shek, lead the Goumindang.
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He's not able to do anything however because warlords are still in power all over china, and the chinese communist party was at odds with him.
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Mao Zaedong was one of the founding members.
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The Guomindang got mad at the communists for trying to set up a socialist government, the ultimate goal of the communists. This causes a war between them.
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This is a very long march that the communist party had to go on in order to not be destroyed. They went about 144 miles a day, with about one skirmish a day. The important aspect of this is how determined the marchers were.
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This gives him a lot of influence
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The Nationalists responed very badly to this and lost a lot of support.
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Intellectual groups were sent to the fields to learn what "real China" was like.
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Mao's ideas feature prominently.
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This allows Mao to step forward as the leader of China.
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Mao proclaimed the founding of the people’s republic of China, showing he was now in power as the country's leader. He promised many things he didn't deliver on providing.
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28,332 people were accused of being against China and were executed.
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This spurred massive industrialization via having peasants sell grain at low prices, resulting in increased living standards.
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This very bad idea is elaborated on in the timespan description.
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This was a complete failure and a terrible idea. 20 million people died of starvation as a result of it, since the grain was sold to the Soviet Union to get technology, and people were spurred to do foolish things like try to make steel in their backyard.
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This other bad idea is elaborated on in the timespan below.
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This was another terrible idea. It was an attempt to fire up the glory days of the revolution by firing up the children of China, but it just led to the Red Guard forming, trying to tear down tradition by destroying anything associated with it, and intellectuals getting persecuted and sent to the countryside. This was not the intended result.
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This, clearly, ends his influence
