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China In Revolution 1911 – 1949 (Video)

Hurley, Chiang, and Mao

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  • 1911: Xinhai Revolution. An Army revolt marks the beginning of the Republic.
  • 1912: Sun Yat-sen is made first provisional President of the Republic.
    • Guo Min Dang (KMT), The National People’s Party is founded.
    • Emperor Xuan Tong resigns.
    • Yuan Shikai becomes provisional President.
  • 1915: Japan presents its Twenty-One Demands.
  • 1916: Warlords struggle for power after the death of Yuan Shikai.
  • 1919: May Fourth Movement.
  • 1921: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is formed.
  • 1921-1922: Nine Power Treaty.
  • 1923: Chiang Kai-shek becomes head of the Huangpu Military Academy.
  • 1925: Sun Yat-sen dies.
  • 1926-1927: Mao Zedong organizes the peasants of Hunan Province.
  • 1927: Chiang Kai-shek turns on the leaders of the labor unions and the Communist Party. Many are killed.
  • 1928: Capital is moved to Nanjing.
    • Most of China is under KMT control.
    • Japanese blow up Zhang Zuolin’s train.
  • 1929-1931: Disastrous famine.
  • 1930-1934: Chiang Kai-shek leads five encirclement campaigns against the Communists.
  • 1931: Mukden Incident
    • Japanese take Manchuria.
  • 1934-35: The Long March of the Communist Party.
  • 1936: Xian Incident. Attempted coup against Chiang.
  • 1937: Incident at Marco Polo Bridge. Begins Second Sino-Japanese War. Communist Eight Route Army Formed.
  • 1938: Japanese take much of China. Communists filter in behind enemy lines and fight guerrilla war against Japanese.
  • 1940: Puppet government under Wang Jingwei is established.
  • 1941: New Fourth Army Incident
  • 1945: Japanese surrender.
  • 1946: KMT and CCP agree to a cease fire. Cease fire does not last.
  • 1948: CCP takes Manchuria and northern China.
  • 1949: Chiang Kai-shek and KMT retreat to Taiwan.

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WIKIPEDIA – CHINESE CIVIL WAR

The Three Stages of Mao’s Revolutionary Warfare

Mao in 1935.

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Like all craftsman and builders in history, Mao worked with the materials available at hand– peasants. It wasn’t the crisis of overproduction, or the alienation of the worker, that mattered to them. No, what a Chinese peasant dreamed of was land; Mao understood this well… More>>