KEY DATES Chinese Civil War Flashcards

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First United Front

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Between CCP/KMT against Japanese invasion, 1937

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May Fourth Movement

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Led by students in Beijing against warlords and the Japanese, 1919 (STC)

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Long March

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Made Mao the undisputed leader of the CCP, 1934-35 (STC)

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White Terror

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CKS expelled all the communists from KMT, Shanghai, 1927

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Japanese Invasion

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Resulted in the formation of the First United Front, May 22nd, 1937

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Communist Victory

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CCP won the war against KMT, 1949

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Chinese Civil War

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Dates widely debated due to separation of LT- and ST- causes; main phase generally regarded as 1945-1949.

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Peace Talks

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Mao, Zhou, Jiang attended peace talks in Chongqing, accompanied by Patrick Hurly (FI), resulting in a short-lived bilateral pact promising to suspend hostilities and form an all-party government, August 1945

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Second Sino-Japanese War

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Caused government revenue to shrink, resulting in hyperinflation and a thriving black market (STC), 1937-1945

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KMT capture of Yan’an

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One of the few Nationalist victories over the course of the war, March 1947

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Generalissimo’s Flight

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Jiang Jieshi fled by airplane to Taiwan, marking the end of the Nationalist era in China, 1949

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