China AOS1 Key Dates

Question 1

Tongmenghui Founded by Sun Yixian

Answer 1

20th August 1905

Question 2

Xinhai Revolution

Answer 2

10th October 1911

Question 3

Republic of China Proclaimed

Answer 3

1st January 1912

Question 4

Pu Yi Abdicates

Answer 4

12th February 1912

Question 5

Yuan Shikai Inaugurated

Answer 5

10th March 1912

Question 6

Guomindang Founded

Answer 6

25th August 1912

Question 7

Song Jiaoren Assassinated

Answer 7

20th March 1913

Question 8

Yuan Shikai Dissolves Parliament

Answer 8

10th January 1914

Question 9

Yuan Shikai Accepts Japan’s 21 Demands

Answer 9

7th May 1915 (becomes Day of Shame protest date)

Question 10

New Culture Movement

Answer 10

1915-mid 1920s

Question 11

Yuan Shikai Dies

Answer 11

6th June 1916

Question 12

May Fourth Movement

Answer 12

4th May 1919

Question 13

First CCP Congress

Answer 13

23rd-31st July 1921

Question 14

Sun-Joffe Declaration (First United Front Begins)

Answer 14

26th January 1923

Question 15

First United Front

Answer 15

1923-1927

Question 16

Sun Yixian Dies

Answer 16

12th March 1925

Question 17

Northern Expedition Begins

Answer 17

27th July 1925

Question 18

Shanghai Massacre

Answer 18

12th April 1927

Question 19

Jiang Elected Chairman of Nationalist Government

Answer 19

1st October 1928

Question 20

Nationalist (Nanjing) Decade

Answer 20

1927 (or 1928) - 1937

Question 21

Manchurian Incident (Japan Invades Manchuria and Installs Puppet Government)

Answer 21

18th September 1931

Question 22

First All-China Congress of Soviets Declares Chinese Soviet Republic (Mao Elected Head of Jiangxi Soviet)

Answer 22

7th November 1931

Question 23

Fifth Encirclement Campaign Launched

Answer 23

6th October 1933

Question 24

New Life Movement Launched

Answer 24

19th February 1934

Question 25

Long March

Answer 25

16th October 1934 - 22nd October 1935

Question 26

Battle of Xiang River

Answer 26

25th November - 3rd December 1934

Question 27

Zunyi Conference

Answer 27

15th - 17th January 1935

Question 28

Luding Bridge Captured

Answer 28

29th May 1935

Question 29

Xi’an Incident

Answer 29

12th - 25th December 1936

Question 30

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Answer 30

7th July 1937

Question 31

Second Sino-Japanese War

Answer 31

1937 - August 1945

Question 32

Second United Front

Answer 32

22nd September 1937 - 4th January 1941

Question 33

Rectification Campaign Launched

Answer 33

1st February 1942

Question 34

Dixie Mission

Answer 34

July 1944

Question 35

Red Army Renamed People’s Liberation Army (PLA)

Answer 35

1st May 1946

Question 36

Chinese Civil War

Answer 36

July 1946 - 1949

Question 37

Jiang Jieshi Resigns

Answer 37

21st January 1949

Question 38

Mao Proclaims People’s Republic of China

Answer 38

1st October 1949

Question 39

Jiangxi Soviet

Answer 39

November 1931 - October 1934

Question 40

Rape of Nanjing

Answer 40

December 1937 - January 1938