jun 1, 1924 - China

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1924

Nov 11 Ho Chi Minh arrives in Guangzhou, China. This is where Vietnamese running from the French go. Ho becomes an assistant to Michael Borodin, the Soviet Union's advisor to Sun Yat-sen. Ho begins organizing Vietnamese in exile and directing rebel activities in Vietnam.

1925

Mar 12 Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen dies of cancer. Within the Guomintang, Within the Guomindang, rivalry between moderates and leftists will now intensify. Youthful Guomindang political organizers will begin extending Guomindang authority northward.

May 30 In China, students and labor unionists associated within the Guomindang have been directing their energies against British and Japanese commercial interests in China and a boycott of British and Japanese goods. A strike for higher wages at a Japanese owned cotton mill in Shanghai results in the mill's management committing brutalities against strike supporters. British municipal police fire on and kill thirteen demonstrators. China's Communist Party, fervently anti-imperialist, expands from a few hundred members to more than 20,000.

Dec 26 Six US warships are ordered from Manila to China to protect US interests there.

1927

Jan 19 Advancing Guomindang forces under the influence of Leftists have taken over the British concession in the cities of Hankow and Kiukiang. Britain sends troops to Shanghai to prevent the same from happening there and to save lives and property. In February the British will conclude an agreement with the Guomindang.

Feb 19 A general strike in Shanghai protests the presence of British troops.

Mar 5 Some 1,000 US Marines arrive in Shanghai to "protect American property."

Mar 12 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's army pushes into the Chinese section of Shanghai. They won't molest foreigners or their property and in a couple of days the foreigners will relax.

Apr 12 The Guomindang's movement northward from Canton has been accompanied by a wave of strikes that bring production in China to a standstill, and peasant unrest has been encouraged, raising fears among landowners across China. Warlords have been going over to the side of the Guomindang's leader, Chiang Kai-shek. Wealthy Chinese businessmen offer moderates within the Guomindang their support if they rid the Guomindang of its leftists. Chiang Kai-shek has developed a dislike for Communists. His forces take control of Shanghai and turn against the Guomindang's Communists and against labor unions. In Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek rounds up Communists and other Leftists. Hundreds of union supporters are murdered.

Apr 19 In China, Communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek.

May 22 A conference between the Liberals and Conservatives, brokered by the US, has produced a settlement. Within a week the Liberals will turn in 11,600 rifles, 303 machine guns and more that 5 million rounds of ammunition. But not everyone on the Liberal side goes along with the settlement and the occupation of their country by the US Marines.

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