1. March 21, 2017
Global II Agenda:
NOTES #38: How did China become a communist nation?
CLASS ASSIGNMENT: “Communist Rise to Power (in China)”

2. How did China become a communist nation? Notes #38

3. Flag of the Nationalist Party
In 1912, the Nationalist Party (or Kuomintang) took control of China after overthrowing the Qing Dynasty.
Flag of the Nationalist Party
(or Kuomintang)
Sun Yat-sen;
founder of the
Nationalist Party
Chiang Kai-shek;
successor to
Sun Yat-sen

4. Sun Yat-sen (or Sun Yixian) Chiang Kai-shek (or Jiang Jieshi)
The Nationalists established the Republic of China, led by Sun Yat-sen and later Chiang Kai-shek.
Sun Yat-sen (or Sun Yixian)
Chiang Kai-shek (or Jiang Jieshi)

5. Many of China’s peasants believed the Nationalists were corrupt and supported the opposing Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong.
Flag of the Chinese
Communist Party 

6. As a result, the Chinese Civil War occurred between the Communists and the Nationalists from 1927 to 1949.

7. The Communists won the Chinese Civil War and established the People’s Republic of China.

8. A major reason the Communists were successful in this war was because they promised land to the peasants and had their support.

9. Taiwan’s first president
After losing the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan (which claims its independence from China today).
Chiang Kai-shek;
Taiwan’s first president