1. Collapse of Chinese Imperial Rule
14-3

2. Nationalists come to power
Kuomintang-nationalist party
Sun Yixian overthrows the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

3. Sun’s principles
Nationalism
Democracy
Livelihood

4. Sun gives up control
Yuan Shikai, general, takes control = China into a military state
Yuan dies leads to chaos

5. WW I 1917, the Chinese gov’t declares war on Germany
China upset - Japan is given control of German land in China

6. May 4th Movement
Anger over WWI outcome causes demonstrations throughout country
Mao Zedong supports the May 4th mov’t

7. Jiang Jieshi heads Kuomintang
1927 nationalist forces fight Communists
Nearly wiped out Communists
Jiang is president of the Nationalist Republic of China

8. Mao Zedong Mao gains support from the peasants
Divides up won land to peasants
New type of communism
Rural revolution – peasants are revolutionaries
Lenin began his in cities (factories)

9. Long March 1933 Jiang has army of 700,000 1934 the Communists flee
10,000-30,000 of 100,000 survive march to northwest China

10. Civil War Halts
Japan invades Chinese region of Manchuria in begins WWII in Asia
1938 Japan has control of large section of China
Nationalists and the Communists unite against the Japanese