Revolutionary%20Movements%20in%20China

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Revolutionary Movements in China
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History

• China had typically been ruled by a series of
  dynasties
• The last dynasty was the Qing
• They had been in power since 1644
• But in 1911, a revolution began in China to
  overthrow this system and move China more towards
  modernization and industrialization

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Mao Zedong

• In 1921, a group met in Shanghai to organize a
  Chinese Communist Party
• Mao was their leader
• He envisioned a different Communism than that of
  Russia
• However, in the southern part of China, a
  different idea about government was forming

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Chiang Kai-Shek orJiang Jieshi

• Son of a middle class merchant
• Many of his followers were bankers and business
  people
• Feared communism
• Promised democracy to his followers
• Peasants didnt feel like he was doing enough to
  help him so they switched to the Communist Party
  Mao had won

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The Showdown

• By 1930, nationalists and communists were at war
  civil war
• Mao recruited peasants to fight in his army
• He trained them in guerrilla warfare
• Jiang gathered an army of 700,000 and surrounded
  the communists
• The communists fled in an event called The Long
  March
• Finally, Mao and his followers settled in caves
  in northwestern China where he would regain his
  following

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