China

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China
China 1924 -1976

• 1924-1976

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Warlords

• The Collapse of the of Qing Dynasty
• Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
• Warlords seize power
• Famine and attacks

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World War I

• 21 Demands- Japan
• Japan given control of German colonies
• China was upset at the allies

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Nationalists

• Jiang Jieshi unifies the country
• Purges the Communists
• Starts civil war that will last for 22 years

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The Long March

• Mao Zedong leads retreat to Northern China
• Communist forces earn respect of the peasants
• Communists set up base in Northern China

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Leader of Chinese Communists is Mao Zedong
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Route of the Long March
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Why do communist go on Long March? Jiang trying
to destroy them
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took over a year covered almost 6000
miles Fought against Jiang 12
warlords Crossed 24 rivers and 18 mountain
ranges
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Japan invades

• 1931 Japan invades Manchuria
• Causes the Nationalist to unite with the
  Communists
• 1937 Japan attacks Shanghai and Nanking

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Jiang will not fight Japan unless he has to US
gives him weapons Wants to save them for
communists
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Civil War

• Japan is defeated in 1945
• Communists dominate the North
• 1949- the Nationalists flee to Taiwan
• Mao sets up Communist state

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The Great Leap Forward

• Collectivization
• 1958-1960- Plan to increase farm production and
  industrial output.
• 55 million Chinese starve to death

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Cultural Revolution

• 1966- Purge of bourgeois tendencies
• The old was thrown out
• Teachers, doctors and other professionals fired
  and jailed.
• Sets back Chinese society

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Red Guard
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1966 poster on how to deal with enemies of the
people
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Just like in the poster
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U.S. relations

• 1972 Richard Nixon visits China

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1976 Mao dies
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1979 formal relations are established