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Question 1

1912 China

Answer 1

Pu Yi forced to abdicate, Republic of China established under Sun Yat-sen.

Question 2

1919 China

Answer 2

May 4th Movement protests against the changes that were to be introduced by Treaty of Versailles in China.

Question 3

1921 China

Answer 3

Chinese Communist Party established.

Question 4

1923 China

Answer 4

United front of GMT and CCP established.

Question 5

1916 China

Answer 5

The beginnign of the Warlord Era in China. It lasted for 12 years.

Question 6

1925 China

Answer 6

Sun Yat-sen dies and is replaced by Jiang Kai-Shek.

Question 7

1926 China

Answer 7

Jiang set out on the Northern March to destroy the power of the War Lords.

Question 8

1927 China

Answer 8

In Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek organized a massacre of left-wing members of the GMD, especiallt those whjo were also members of CCP. This started the Chinese Civil War.

Question 9

1930-1934 China

Answer 9

In those years Chiang Kai-shek lauched a series of five military Campaigns of Encirclement and Extermination against the Communists ion the Kiangsi Soviets.

Question 10

1934 China

Answer 10

Beginning of the Long March.

Question 11

1935 China

Answer 11

The end of the Long March in Shanxi.

Question 12

1935 China

Answer 12

The Communists settle in Yan’an in Shanxi, where they remain for the whole war with the Japanese. (Yan’an Soviet)

Question 13

1921 China

Answer 13

Mao, a librarian at Peking (Beijing) University, becomes one of the founding members of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Question 14

1927 China

Answer 14

The Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan province leads Mao to revise his views on Marxism.

Question 15

1927 China

Answer 15

Mao goes to Jiangxi province to join other Communists fleeing the White Terror. The First Chinese Civil War ends with the establishment of the Second United Front.

Question 16

1931 China

Answer 16

The Jiangxi Soviet is established.

Question 17

1936-1945 China

Answer 17

The Xi’an Incident leads to the Second United Front against the Japanese.

Question 18

1937-1945 China

Answer 18

The Second Sino-Japanese War takes place in mainland China.

Question 19

1946-1949 China

Answer 19

Mao and the CPC defeat Jiang Jieshi and the GMD in the Second Chinese Civil War.

Question 20

1949 China

Answer 20

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is founded on 1 October.

Question 21

1950 China

Answer 21

The Marriage Reform Law and Agrarian Land Reform Law are enacted. The Korean War begins.

Question 22

1951-1952 China

Answer 22

The Three Antis and the Five Antis Campaigns are waged against the remnants of capitalism.

Question 23

1953-1957 China

Answer 23

The First Five-Year Plan, modelled on those of the Soviet Union, is introduced in China.

Question 24

1956 China

Answer 24

The Hundred Flowers Campaign is launched.

Question 25

1957 China

Answer 25

The Anti-Rightist Movement carries out purges of critics of the regime.

Question 26

1958-1963 China

Answer 26

The Great Leap Forward begins; the Second Five-Year Plan is introduced.

Question 27

1961 China

Answer 27

The Sino-Soviet Split begins.

Question 28

1962-1966 China

Answer 28

The Socialist Education Movement is formed.

Question 29

1966-1976 China

Answer 29

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution takes place.

Question 30

1971 China

Answer 30

Lin Biao dies, suspected of having betrayed Mao.

Question 31

1972 China

Answer 31

Mao meets Nixon in Beijing.

Question 32

1976 China

Answer 32

Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Mao Zedong die.

Question 33

1942-1943 China

Answer 33

Retification Campaign which involved giving a basic grouding in Marxist theory and Leninist principles of party organisation to the many thousands of new members of the Party. It soon after becomes a purge of those disloyal to Mao.

Question 34

1943 China

Answer 34

Mao becomes the official leader of the Party, becoming the chairman of the Secretariat and of the Politburo.

Question 35

1954 China

Answer 35

New Constituion is enacted.

Question 36

1950 China

Answer 36

A campaign against counter-revolutionaries was launched: it involved dealing with Seven Black Categories: landlords, rich peastants, reactionaries, bad elements, rightists, traitors and spies. There were around 1 million victims.

Question 37

1950 China

Answer 37

Pacification of Tibet.

Question 38

1950 China

Answer 38

The Marriage Law

Question 39

1950 China

Answer 39

Agrarian Reform Law