1. Upheavals in China

2. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Nationalist and Communist forces struggled for control of China

4. Rise of the Guomintang ,or Nationalist, Party
Led by Sun Yixian-”Father of Modern China”
Wanted to establish western-style capitalist economy and representative government

5. Sun Yixian
(Sun Yat-Sen)

6. Three Principles of the People
democracy
nationalism
economic security (socialism, communism)

9. Chinese reformers unite and then turn on each other
1919 the Fourth of May Movement
1925, Jiang Jieshi takes over Nationalist Party
Nationalists unite with Communists to defeat warlords of Northern China

10. Jiang Jieshi
(Chiang Kai-Shek)

11. Chinese Communism
Mao Zedong -founder of Chinese Communism
“Freedom comes from the barrel of a gun”

12. Mao-Zedong
(Mao Tse-Tung)

13. Mao Zedong

14. Mao adapts Marxism to conditions in China
Peasants replace the proletariat as the driving force behind revolution

17. Shanghai falls
Nationalists turn on former Communists allies in a massacre known as the “White Terror”
In 1928, Jiang becomes president of the Nationalist Republic of China

18. Jiang’s policies cause many peasants to join communist forces
By 1930 full scale civil war
1934 Mao leads his 6000 mile “Long March”

22. 1937 Japan’s invasion of China suspends civil war