China 1912-1949

Question 1

Who is Sun Yatsen?

Answer 1

he lead the charge in modernization of china. a key figure of transition from empire to republic. his westernized education in Hawaii influenced his dreams for china.

Question 2

What did Sun Yatsen establish?

Answer 2

established a revolutionar movement that changed into a political party called the Kuomintang or Chinese nationalist party. they were ready to accept help from the Communist government of the soviet union, but yatsen was not a communist

Question 3

What was Sun Yatsen planning accordingly for a unified china?

Answer 3

a planned northern expedition. however, he died unexpectedly and it was handed over to Chiang Kai-Shek.

Question 4

Who was Mao Zedong?

Answer 4

He learned that defense paid off in a struggle, power flows from the barrel of a gun. he converted to Marxian socialism. one of the founders of the Chinese communist party.

Question 5

What was the Chinese communist party going to do?

Answer 5

Unify china based on China’s peasantry

Question 6

What did Mao Zedong advocate for? What was his early goal?

Answer 6

Land reform, for land to be resdistrubted of land for the peasantry to gain land. his goal was to the overthrow the Qing dynasty. he wanted to get rid of monarchy as he felt it was out of touch with the rest of the world

Question 7

What was the 1911 Revolution?

Answer 7

it began as a mutiny between army units towards the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty. the goal was to throw the Qing dynasty out of office. it was successful

Question 8

What happened after the 1911 Revolution?

Answer 8

Sun was named the provisional president of china of the republic of china. causing the official launch of china

Question 9

Who was General Yuan Shigai?

Answer 9

he was a military figured that convinced the Qing Dynasty that they were doomed and the emperors should abdicate. He said he was the only one to bring peace & unity to china. became president of the republic of china after sun

Question 10

What did General Yuan Shigai do?

Answer 10

decided to use his own power to build up dreams of dictatorship. he used his army to restore a monarchy which caused a rebellion to be called against him.

Question 11

Who was Joseph Stalin?

Answer 11

• one of the most brutal man in history
• supported the Chinese nationalist party
• thought that this would help the communist government of soviet union
• pressured the Russian government to work with the Chinese nationalist party

Question 12

What was the Northern Expedition?

Answer 12

• lead by Chaing Kai-Shek
• the corporation of the Chinese nationalist party and the communist government of China
• was to defeat warlords in northern and southern china
• launched in 1926
• successful

Question 13

Who was responsible for bringing political unity in China?

Answer 13

Chaing Kai- Shek

Question 14

Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang versus Mao Zedong’s Communists

Answer 14

After the north expedition, Chiang Kai-she would turn and start to fight the communists. he killed thousands of Chinese communists and stopped land advocations to keep large landowners

Question 15

What happened with the Long March?

Answer 15

It broke the encirclement of the chinese nationalist. it was a 6,000 mile march where they set up in Shensi province. he gave them protection and disturbed land reforms within the province

Question 16

what did Japan do within China?

Answer 16

it invaded china’s northeast territory in Manchuria, making it a Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo

Question 17

What was the united front alliance?

Answer 17

that nationalist and communist party of china alliance to deal with threat of Japan

Question 18

What was the Second Sino-Japanese War?

Answer 18

Japan captured the capital city of china, Nanjing. they showed extreme brutality, even SA

Question 19

What happened on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 19

Japanese launched a surprised attack on Hawaii’s harbor which Brough the United States into the World War II

Question 20

What was the Cairo Conference?

Answer 20

Chiang met with Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The allies would continue war till the end. Japan would lose all the lands that had gained pacific islands they had taken to China. Both Chiang and Zedong would both receive military back up.

Question 21

What happened after the Second Sino-Japanese War?

Answer 21

Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-she immediately began fighting. Mao Zedong was more popular over Chiang because he was advocating for land reforms, while Chiang was facing heavy war debt

Question 22

Who established the people’s republic of china

Answer 22

Mao Zedong, it was a communist regime on continental china

Question 23

who established Taiwan?

Answer 23

Chiang kai-she who set up a nationalist government of the republic of china