Key Dates

Question 1

When was the Boxer uprising?

Answer 1

1900

Question 2

When do Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu die?

Answer 2

1908

Question 3

When does Emperor Puyi ascend?

Answer 3

1908

Question 4

When is the revolution when the republic is established?

Answer 4

1911

Question 5

When does Yuan Shikai become the leader of China?

Answer 5

1912

Question 6

When does Yuan Shikai die?

Answer 6

1916

Question 7

When is the beginning of the Warlord Era

Answer 7

1916

Question 8

When Sun Yat-sen becomes the leader of the nationalist government?

Answer 8

1917

Question 9

When was the GMD (Guomindang) set up

Answer 9

1919

Question 10

When is the May Fourth Movement?

Answer 10

4 May 1919

Question 11

When did Sun Yat-sen die?

Answer 11

1925

Question 12

When did Chiang Kai-shek succeed to the leader of the GMD?

Answer 12

1925

Question 13

When was the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) founded?

Answer 13

June 1921

Question 14

When was the first United Front Established?

Answer 14

1926

Question 15

How long did the first United Front last for?

Answer 15

1924 - 1927

Question 16

When did the British Commander form the International Settlement shoot into the crowd?

Answer 16

30 May 1925

Question 17

When was the Northern Expedition?

Answer 17

1926-28

Question 18

When were the Shanghai Massacres?

Answer 18

1927

Question 19

When were the Extermination Campaigns against the Communists?

Answer 19

1930-1934

Question 20

When did the Japanese invade and occupy Manchuria?

Answer 20

1931

Question 21

When is the Communist Long March?

Answer 21

1934 - 1935

Question 22

When did the Communists break out of the GMD encirclement?

/ Start of Long March

Answer 22

16th of October 1934

Question 23

When did the Communists arrive in Yan’an?

/ End of Long March?

Answer 23

October 1935

Question 24

When was the Sino-Japanese War?

Answer 24

1937 - 1945

Question 25

When was the Second United Front formed?

Answer 25

1937

Question 26

When did Nanjing happen?

Answer 26

December 1937

Question 27

When did the Civil War between the GMD and the CCP break out?

Answer 27

1945 - 1949

Question 28

When was the battle of Huai-Hai?

Answer 28

November 1948 - January 1949

Question 29

When was the People's Republic of China declared?

Answer 29

1 October 1949

Question 30

When were the Agrarian Reform Laws passed?

Answer 30

1950

Question 31

When was the Marriage Law Passed?

Answer 31

1950

Question 32

When did the Chinese sign the 'Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance' with the Soviet Union?

Answer 32

1950

Question 33

When was the Thought Reform?

Answer 33

1951

Question 34

When was the Great Famine?

Answer 34

1958-62

Question 35

When was the First Five Year Plan introduced?

Answer 35

1952

Question 36

When was the Great Leap Forward?

Answer 36

1958