Chronology of key evens in China

Question 1

The First Opium War with Britain

Answer 1

1839-42

Question 2

China is defeated by Japan in a war over Korea

Answer 2

1894-5

Question 3

The boxer rebellion

Answer 3

1898-1901

Question 4

The Double Tenth Revolution against the Qing Dynasty

Answer 4

1911

Question 5

Emperor Pu Yi abdicates; Yuan Shikai becomes president of the Chinese republic

Answer 5

1912

Question 6

Yuan Shikai dies; Warlord era begins

Answer 6

1916

Question 7

The May Fourth Movement: Mass demonstrations take place against the Versailles treaty

Answer 7

1919

Question 8

The CCP is created

Answer 8

1921

Question 9

The first united front between the CCP and the GMD

Answer 9

1923

Question 10

Sut Yatsen dies and is succeeded as GMD leader by Chiang Kai-shek

Question 11

Northern expedition

Answer 11

1926

Question 12

White Terror in Shanghai
The GMD is established at Nanjing
Mao Zedong sets up the Jiangxi Soviet

Answer 12

1927

Question 13

Japanese forces invade Manchuria

Answer 13

1931

Question 14

The Beginning of the Long March (propaganda)

Answer 14

1934

Question 15

MAo is chosen as chairman of the CCP at Zunyi conference

The Long March ends; the CCP set up base at Yanan

Answer 15

1935

Question 16

The Second United Front between GMD and CCP

The Marco Polo Bridge incident; the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war

Answer 16

1937

Question 17

Mao publishes on New Democracy

Answer 17

1940

Question 18

Mao’s first rectification campaign at Yanan

Answer 18

1942

Question 19

World War Two ends with Japanese surrender

Answer 19

1945

Question 20

The PLA wins the Battle for Manchuria and the Battle of Huai-Hai

Answer 20

1948

Question 21

Chiang flees to Taiwan -> The People’s Republic of China is established by the CCP

Answer 21

1948

Question 22

The PLA invades Tibet.
Mao visits Moscow; the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty is signed
Land reform: abot 2 million landlords are killed.
The outbreak of the Korean War: China intervenes on North Korea’s side Campaign against Counter-revolutionaries

Answer 22

1950

Question 23

Three Anties campaign, aimed at corrupt officials

Answer 23

1951

Question 24

The Beginning of the First Five Year Plan + the End of the Korean War

Answer 24

1953

Question 25

The New Constitution is introduced -> China officially becomes a one-party state

Answer 25

1954

Question 26

The Hundred Flower campaign; followed by the Anti-Rightist campaign

Answer 26

1957

Question 27

The beginning of the Great Leap Forward

Answer 27

1958