China twentieth century
Category: Other
Updated: 30 Apr 2019
Contributors
Created byClaudia Sydenstricker
Attachments
Events
Boxer Rebellion
Named "Boxer" because foreign countries got the name Boxers from the name of the group that started the Rebellion
Empress imprisoned the emperor, and supported the Boxers in their campaign to get rid of foreign influences.
Boxers werentKuomintag- Chinese Nationalist Party
February Kuomintag made the Qing emperor leave
Sun Yixian becomes the leader
Three Principles of the people:
-Political unification, end of foreign influence
-Democratic government w/full rights
-Economic improvements, industrialization, equal distribution of land
Had trouble unifying China due to powerful warlords-Sun forced to flee to JapanIn the 1920s The Chinese Communist party formed
The Nationalist party was weak and needed support
Chinese Communist party helped Nationalist
1927 Communists executed in Shanghai
Conservative Nationalists expelled the Chinese CommunistsNationalists repeatedly attacked the Chinese Communists after the Communists had set up their own government modeling that of RussiaCommunists and Nationalists agreed to stop the Civil War in order to join forces to address the Japanese threat to China. After Japan surrendered, fighting continued. Communists gain support, and Nationalists become weakerMao Zendong led the Communists in 1949, and was able to overthrow Nationalists, Killed 1 million people. Chiang retreated to Taiwan with Nationalists, where government was set up claiming to be the true governmetn of China. US refused to recognize the new Communist government and agreed with Chiang. Mao set-up Communist government in ChinaThe Communists began the first 5 year plan, which involved both economical and agricultural change, as the Landowners were forced to give over land to the peasants. This was a success and China as agriculture and industrial was increased.Second 5 year plan, the Great Leap Forward was a fail, as 20 million people starved
People lived in communes-places where thousands of families were hosed
Children were taken care of in communal nurseries
The Steel made in backyards was useless, as it was of bad quality
Communes gave exaggerated numbers as to how much was grown, when government went to sell the grains, they took too much, as they didn’t know how much they actually had, and the peasants starved
30 million ppl died in famine-largest famine inMao’s power was being questioned by his party, so he launched the Cultural Revolution, where he formed Red Guards who would destroy ancient artifacts, and beat, kill, anyone who did not follow Maoounded
-This event went down in history as the Tiananmen Square Massacre
AS A RESULT:
-most western countries and international aid agencies stopped or cut back loans to China
-tourists stopped visiting China
-Jiang, China’s president after 1993 created a new plan to make money. The government gave up control of thousands of government owned businesses, and new owners could try to make money-pro-democracy protesters held a demonstration in the spring in Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s central gathering place
-protestors wanted a greater say in government, better conditions in universities, and an end to corrupt ruling
-thousands of students started a hunger strike, while ignoring the government's orders to leave
-In early June tanks and armed trupes started moving towards Tiananmen Square
-Troops shot at the people they saw on the streets
-Hundreds of protestors were killed, while thousands were wPeriods
China after Mao
Comments