China AOS1 Flashcards
When was the Republic of China declared?
1st January 1912
What was the date of Yuan Shikai declared president?
10th March 1912
When was the 21 demands?
18th January 1915
When was the New Culture movement originated?
1914
When did Yuan declare Emperor?
1st January 1916
When was the May 4th movement?
4th May 1919
When was the founding of CCP?
23rd July 1921
When was the Sun-Joffe declaration?
26th January 1923
When was the start of the Northern Expedition?
1st July 1926
When was the Shanghai Massacre?
12th April 1927
When was the Autumn harvest uprising?
7th-13th September 1927
When did the Jiangxi Soviet form?
10th February 1929
When did the Futian purges occur?
October 1930-1931
When was the Manchurian incident?
18th September 1931
When was the 5th Encirclement campaign start?
6th October 1933
When did the New Life Movement start?
19th February 1934
When was the start of the Long March?
16th December 1934
When was the Zunyi conference?
15-17th January 1935
When was the Luding bridge?
29th May 1935
When was the Snowy Mountain+High Grassland?
July-August 1935
When was the Yan’an Soviet established?
25th December 1935
When was the Xi’an incident?
12th December 1936
When was the Rectification campaign?
1941-1945
When did Japan’s full scale invasion on China began?
7th July 1937
When was the Second united front form and when did it end?
Form: 22nd September 1937
End: 4th January 1941
When was the Rape of Nanjing?
13th December 1937
When was the blow up of the yellow river dikes of Jiang?
7th June 1938
When was the 100 regiments campaign?
20th August-5th September 1940
When was the Dixie mission?
June 1944
When was the Civil War?
1946-1949
What were Sun’s three principles of the people?
Nationalism, Democracy, People’s livelihood.
What did the 21 demands consist of?
Extensive right in economic development in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, Control over mining in central China, control over Liaodong Peninsula near Korea and right to appoint Japanese advisor to Chinese government.
What did the New culture movement consist of?
Introducing new way of thinking such as Communism, nationalism, feminism. Language innovation and vernacularism, critique of Confucius, spreading of Communism.
Why did the student protest in May 4th Movement?
To protest handing over German colony in Shandong to Japan in the treaty of versailles.
What does the Sun-Joffe declaration consist of?
Soviet Union and CCP support Sun for national revolution against the warlords and form first united front, agreed that a national revolution must come before a socialist one.
Why did Jiang order the Shanghai massacre?
He was afraid that the growing reputation and strength of the Communists were a threat to his power.
What did Mao do in the Jiangxi Soviet?
Redistribute land to peasants and kill exploitative landlords, fixed grain tax of 15-20%, trained red army using volunteer force, set up code of conduct for red army using 3 main rule and 8 points of attention, implemented military tactic of guerrilla tactics, campaigned against child slavery, foot binding and forced marriages.
What did the aim of the New Life Movement?
Let Chinese people re-embrace the virtues of social decency, right conduct, honesty and self-respect by setting up rules of clean residents and find things to do if you have nothing to do.
What was the failures of the nationalist government in the Nationalist decade?
The failures include heavy corruption, inflation and excessive taxation
What were the importance of the events of the Long March: Zunyi Conference, Luding bridge, Snowy Mountain+High grasslands?
Zunyi conference: 28 Bolshevik lost power and Mao regained power
Luding bridge: Later used as a propaganda for defeating GMD and Communist heroism
Snowy Mountain+High Grassland: Used as propaganda for Communism resilience.
