Nationalism vs Communism in China

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Nationalism vs Communismin China

• Brian and Lynn

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Key Ideas

• The Main Conflict Nationalism vs Communism
• Nationalists Democracy
• Communists Communism
• After the fall of Qing Dynasty, Nationalist and
  Communist parties fought for power
• Start of Communism in China

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Back Ground

• Lets read the comic ?

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Nationalism VS Communism

• Key Characters
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• -Sun Yixian leader of Kuomintang, Nationalist
• -Kuomintang Nationalist Party
• -Mao Zedong Founder of Chinese
• Communist Party
• -Jiang Jieshi Successor of Sun, Nationalist

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And the Battle Begins

• VS The Chinese Communist Party

• Nationalists
• (Kuomintang)

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Sun Yixian

• Sun Yixian formed a Nationalist group,
  Kuomintang.
• -Kuomintang overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
• -Sun became president of China(1912).

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Three Principles of People

• Suns Ideas Three Principles of People
• Nationalism no more foreign rule
• Democracy give people rights
• Economic security
• Sun only lasted for 6 weeks as the president.

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Yuan Shikai

• Yuan Shikai overthrew
• Sun and became president
• (1912).
• -No more democracy
• Military Rule
• Local Revolts
• Yuan died (1916)

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Chaos in China

• Chaos in China (1916)
• -The government of China lost its power.
• -Warlords stole from peasants.
• -Constant civil wars
• -Peasants died of hunger.

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WWI and China

• Meanwhile, Europe was in WWI
• -Chinas government declared war against Germany.
• -Thought the Allies would give back the German
  colonies in China
• -Treaty of Versailles Allies gave the German
  colonies to Japan

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The Chinese were Outraged..
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Nationalists allies with Communists

• May Fourth Movement
• Mao Zedong forms the Chinese Communist Party

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Jiang Jieshi

• Jiang Jieshi (a.k.a. Chiang Kai-shek) took over
  the Kuomintang.
• Jiang betrayed the Communists and massacred the
  Chinese Communist Party (1927).
• Jiang becomes president of China(1928).

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The Rise of Mao Zedong

• Jiangs government was a failure
• Peasants supported the Chinese Communist Party.
• Mao Zedongs Revolution
• -Swimming in the peasant-sea
• -A Communist revolution based on the support from
  peasants
• -Mao led the Red Army

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Mao Zedong

• The force of peasantry is like that of the
  raging winds and driving rain. It is rapidly
  increasing in violence. No force can stand in its
  way. The peasantry will tear apart all nets which
  bind it and hasten along the road to liberation.
  They will bury beneath them all forces of
  imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom,
  village bosses, and evil gentry.

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Start of Communism

• Maos RevolutionMarxist Ideas
• Maos Chinese Communist Party was the start of
  Communism in China.
• China is still a Communist country.
• Chinas Communist views have caused tension
  between Democratic Western Nations VS Communist
  Nations

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The Long March

• Civil War (1930) Mao Zedong (Communists) vs
  Jiang Jieshi (Nationalists)
• 19331934 Jiangs Nationalist army grows
• -Jiang repeatedly attacks the Communists and
  surrounds them
• The Long March Mao and his Communist army
  running away from the Nationalists