Ch Imperial China Collapses China was ripe for revolution after many years of foreign countries laying claim to Chinese lands

I. Nationalist Qing Dynasty A. A Shaky Start For the New Republic 1.Kuomintang or Nationalists Party desired modernization and nationalization 2.Sun Yixian- was the first great leader of this party and in 1911 he led the Revolutionary Alliance which ended the reign of the Qing Dynasty

I. Nationalist Qing Dynasty A. A Shaky Start For the New Republic 3. Became president in 1912 and created “three principles of the people”-nationalism, people’s rights-democracy, and people’s livelihood 4.Sun turned over the presidency to powerful general Yuan Shikai who betrayed the democratic ideals

B. World War I Spells More Problems China declared war on Germany with hopes that the European nations would return German held territories in China back to the Chinese 2.Unfortunately the Europeans gave them to Japan upsetting the Chinese

B. World War I Spells More Problems 3.The May Fourth Movement in 1919 were demonstrations that showed solidarity of the Chinese people and would lead the Chinese to adopt Lenin’s Soviet communism and dump Western democracy ideals

II. The Communist Party in China B. Lenin Befriends China 1.In 1921 a group of intellectuals met in Shanghai to organize the Chinese Communist party 2.Among this group was Mao Zedong (an assistant librarian) China’s greatest revolutionary leader

II. The Communist Party in China B. Lenin Befriends China 3. He believed the peasants as being the true revolutionaries 4.Lenin supported the Nationalist govt. under one condition which was they had to allow the Chinese Communist to join the Kuomintang

B. Peasants Align with Communists 1.Jiang Jieshi formerly known as Chiang Kai-shek took power after Sun’s death in 1925 and he feared the Communist goal of creating a socialist economy

B. Peasants Align with Communists 1.In time Jiang govt. became less democratic and more unpopular forcing the peasants to give their support to Mao’s Communist Party

C. Nationalist & Communist Clash 1.April 1927 Nationalists turn on the Communists killing many leaders and trade union members nearly wiping them out Jiang became president of the Nationalist Republic of China recognized by U.S. and England but not the Soviets as result of the killings; results in civil war

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