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The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against the foreigners. It begun by peasants but they eventually started supporting the government. This went on until September 7, 1901 -
The Qing dynasty was overthrown by a revolution. It came to a fall in 1911. After it fell, it was the end of the longest lasting imperial in history. -
Establishment of the Republic of China was a republic formed January 1 of 1912. It started an uprising, by the October, it officially overthrew the Qing dynasty. -
The May Fourth movement was a Chinese anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement. This grew out into a student protest on May 4th 1919. This started a new culture. -
The Second Sino-Japanese War started on July 7 1937, and ended on September 9, 1945. The Japanese won this war. It became a full-scale resistance. -
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the start of the Peoples Republic of China. They had a grand ceremony for the start of this. People’s Republic of China is a political group. -
The Great Leap Forward was an agriculture development. This ended in the early 1960’s. This killed over 45 million people by Mao Zedong. -
The Chinese communist party was launched. It was also a sociopolitical movement. It was also the start of the Soviet unions, -
The early 1970s, the economy for the first time let farmers keep half their crops. They let farmers work less. It gave consumers an incentive to eat less. -
In 1989 Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, which were crushed by China's Communist rulers. And there were assault rifles and tanks. And they exploded very important buildings.