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Chinese Republic
Chiang found a new chinese republic at Nanjing.During the next 3 years, He worked to ruenify china they saw japan as a serious threat, he believed that the communists were more dangerous he made a remark " The communists are a dieases at heart" It was in the early stages of industrialzation and modernization when it was caught in the conflicts among the kuomintag government. -
Chinese Communist Party
In 1921, a group of radicals founded the Chinese Communist Party. -
National Party
In 1923, the two parties Nationalists and communists formed an alliance to oppose the warlords and drive the imperalists powers out of China for good. They formed the National Revolutionary Army. -
Sun Yat-Sen Dies
Sun Yat-Sen died from a liver cancer on March, 12 1925 at the well known age of 58 at the rockefeller finaced Peking union medical college in keeping in common with chineses culture. He's remains were placed at the temple of azure clouds. He was then buried in Nanajing. -
General Chiang Kai-Shek
General Chiang Kai-Shek took over the head of the Nationalist Party. -
Expedition for Control Over China
The nationalists and communists formed a revolutionary army to march north and sieze control over China. This expedition began in the Summer of 1926. -
Shanghai Massacre
After the Shanghai massacre. most of the communist leaders went into hiding in the city. There they tried to revive the communist movement among the working class Shanghai was a rich recruiting ground for the party. People were discontented and looking for leadership. -
Chiang Doublecross
Chiang had no love for the communists he pretended to support the alliance with the communists until April 27, 1927. When he struck against them in Shanghai, Killing thousands, After the shanghai massacre.But he knew the coopartion with them was necasarry if he wanted to keep the KMT alive. He struck against the warlords in July. -
Road Building Project
Chiang undertook a massive road building project and repaired and extended much of the countries railroad system as well. -
Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong
Unlike other memebers of the communist party, Mao was convinced that a Chinese revolution would be driven by the paesants in the countryside rather than by uraban working class.
Chiang Kai-shek now decided to root the communist out of their urban base in Shanghai and rural base in Jiangxi Province. He succeded in this task in 1931. -
The Guerilla Tactic
In 1931, Mao made an effectrive use of guerilla tactics which was the use of unexpected sabotage and fight the enemy. Mao made this because chiangs force outnumbered Mao's. Their was four slogans to describe this method, one of them is "When the enemy advances, we retreat!
The guerilla tactics are useful in destroying the enemy, while raising the morale of the guerillas. In other words, the tactics allow a small force to hold off much larger and better equipped enemy for a long time. -
"New Life Movement"
Chiand Kai-Shek set up a "New Life Movement." Its goal was to promote traditional confucian social ethics, such as integrity, propriety, and righteousness. -
The Long March
In 1934 Chiang's troops, with their military strength, surrounded the communist base in Jiangxi. Since the villages were behind Chiang's troops, no food or supplies could pass the communist base. However, the Mao's army, the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) invaded through the nationalist lines and began the long march.The long march was a desperate race. Moving up mountains, rivers, and deserts. taking over a year to reach northern china.Mao's leadership-> leader ofcommunist -
The Red army
After the long march the Red army arrived in Zungi. Eventually the Chinese communist party held a conference and they elected Mao as the party leader. -
The class divide
The affect of the class divide in China was it weakened the political, ecomomical, and social fabric of the nation. Rural peasants were still very poor. People who lived in the countryside were ruined by the warfare and civil strife.
