Agenda

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Agenda 2-13-14

• BW Define
• CW Notes on post-imperial China
• CW 2 You have how many names? (Key People)
• HW Timeline
• QOTD You aint got no legs Lt. Dan
• -Forest Gump

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EQ What was post-imperial China like?(How did
China become communist?)
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Nationalists overthrow Qing Dynasty

• A New Power
• KuomintangNationalist Party of Chinacalls for
  modernization
• Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) first great leader of
  Nationalist Party

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• In 1912, the Nationalist Party (or the
  Kuomintang) overthrew the Qing Dynasty and took
  control of China.

Flag of the Kuomintang
? Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Kuomintang
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• The Nationalists were led by Sun Yat-sen, and
  later Chiang Kai-shek.

Sun Yat-sen (or Sun Yixian)
Chiang Kai-shek (or Jiang Jieshi)
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Shaky Start for the New Republic

• In 1912, Sun takes control as president
• Backs three principles nationalism, democracy,
  economic security
• No national agreement on rule civil war breaks
  out in 1916
• Many peasants opposed Nationalists, believing
  that they were corrupt.

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More problems.WWI

• China enters war against Germany hoping to gain
  land held by Germans
• Treaty of Versailles gives German colonies in
  China to Japan
• May 4, 1919, angry students protest this
  agreement - May Fourth Movementspreads across
  China
• Many young nationalists turn against Sun Yixian

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Rise of a New Leader

• Mao Zedonghelps form Chinese Communist Party in
  1921
• In 1923, Lenin helps Nationalists, who agree to
  work with Communists

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Peasants Align with the Communists

• Jiang JieshiNationalist leader after Sun
  diesopposes communism
• Peasants see no gain for them in Jiangs plans
• Supported the opposing Communist Party, led by
  Mao Zedong.

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Mao Zedong
Flag of the Chinese Communist Party ?
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Chinese Civil War

• In 1927, Nationalists kill Communists, unionists
  in Shanghai
• In 1928, Jiang becomes president Communists
  resist his rule
• This led to the Chinese Civil War (1927 1949),
  between the Nationalists and the Communists.

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War Rages in China

• By 1930, civil war rages Mao recruits a peasant,
  guerrilla army
• In 1933, Jiangs huge army surrounds outnumbered
  Communists
• Long MarchCommunists 6,000-mile journey to
  safety in north
• Of 100,000 Communists, 7,000 or 8,000 survive the
  march

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Wait We should fight Japan.. For now

• Civil War Suspended
• Seeing chaos in China, Japan launches all-out
  invasion in 1937
• Nationalists and Communists join together to
  fight Japan

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Sun   Jiang Mao Peasants
                                               
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• By 1949, the Communists won the Chinese Civil War
  and formed the Peoples Republic of China.

1st Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong
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• A major reason the Communists were successful was
  because they had the support of the peasants
  after promising them land.

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• Meanwhile, the Nationalists fled to the island of
  Taiwan and created the Republic of China.

1st President, Chiang Kai-shek