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The Taiping Rebellion was a civil war in Southern China that took the lives of about 20 million people, maily civilians
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Wuchang Uprising
11 Oct 1911 The people where not happy with the way the railroad crisis was handled so they rose up against the Qing officials. This ended the Qing Dynasty and began the Republic of China.
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Yat-sen was president but soon gave the presidency to Yuan Shikai
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A military campaign, run by the Kuomintang party, that overthrew the Beijing government. They began a new government in Nanking.
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A Japanese leuitenant blew up some dynamite near a Japanese train track,
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the most famous was the march from Jiangxi to Shaanxi.
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The war was caused by Japan's constant want to control China in all aspects.
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For six weeks they killed and raped Chinese women;
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after the war with the Tibetan army, the Chinese asked Tibet to send representatives so that they could reach an agreement together.
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purpose was to change China from an agricultural society to an industrial society.
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marked the return of Mao Zedong as a political power,
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believes that there are people in their party that were opposed to communism.
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The People's Republic of China (PRC), commonly referred as China, was admitted into the UN in 1971. This was the 21st time there was a vote.
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trip gave Americans a look into China that they hadn't had in over 20 years.
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They were arrested after Mao's death
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Officials made it law that families were only allowed one child
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a lot of Chinese people joined as the protests went on during this time period.
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hydroelectric dam spans the length of the Yangtze River
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Great Britain returned Hong Kong lands back to the Chinese after a 99-year lease.
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a plane crash about 70 miles from the island of Hainan