Before 1949

Question 1

What dynasty was overthrown in 1911?

Answer 1

The Qing dynasty

Question 2

What was China like after 1911?

Answer 2

A period of chaos with warlords fighting to control regions - ignoring the central government

Question 3

Who took political control in the 1920’s in China?

Answer 3

The GMD (lead by Chiang Kai-Shek)

Question 4

What was the Nanking decay? (1927-37)

Answer 4

Nationalists established political stability , driving the Communists to Jiangxi - putting them under siege

Question 5

Describe the Long March (1934)

Answer 5

100,000 communists escape Jiangxi and travel north to Yanan - 20,000 surviving

Question 6

What happened during the Sino-Japanese war? (1937-1940’s)

Answer 6

Japan invade Manchuria
GMD and CCP unite to fight Japan
Japan push south until US intervene (helping Chiang)
Japan surrender after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

Question 7

How did the GMD lose the civil war? (1946-49)

Answer 7

CCP took a back seat in fighting (gaining peasant support) Japanese so weren’t as damaged
GMD were corrupt and inefficient
GMD badly lost in Manchuria (CCP territory) and were pushed back from there - until Chiang fled to Taiwan