KEY DATES Chinese Civil War

Question 1

First United Front

Answer 1

Between CCP/KMT against Japanese invasion, 1937

Question 2

May Fourth Movement

Answer 2

Led by students in Beijing against warlords and the Japanese, 1919 (STC)

Question 3

Long March

Answer 3

Made Mao the undisputed leader of the CCP, 1934-35 (STC)

Question 4

White Terror

Answer 4

CKS expelled all the communists from KMT, Shanghai, 1927

Question 5

Japanese Invasion

Answer 5

Resulted in the formation of the First United Front, May 22nd, 1937

Question 6

Communist Victory

Answer 6

CCP won the war against KMT, 1949

Question 7

Chinese Civil War

Answer 7

Dates widely debated due to separation of LT- and ST- causes; main phase generally regarded as 1945-1949.

Question 8

Peace Talks

Answer 8

Mao, Zhou, Jiang attended peace talks in Chongqing, accompanied by Patrick Hurly (FI), resulting in a short-lived bilateral pact promising to suspend hostilities and form an all-party government, August 1945

Question 9

Second Sino-Japanese War

Answer 9

Caused government revenue to shrink, resulting in hyperinflation and a thriving black market (STC), 1937-1945

Question 10

KMT capture of Yan’an

Answer 10

One of the few Nationalist victories over the course of the war, March 1947

Question 11

Generalissimo’s Flight

Answer 11

Jiang Jieshi fled by airplane to Taiwan, marking the end of the Nationalist era in China, 1949