Post Ww1 Chinese Revolution

Question 1

Yuan Shikai

Answer 1

Warlord in northern china after fall of Qing dynasty; hoped to seize imperial throne; president of China after 1912; resigned in the face of japanese invasion in 1916

Question 2

May fourth movement

Answer 2

resistance to japanese encroachments in china began on this date in 1919; spawned movement of intellectuals aimed at transforming china into a liberal democracy; rejected Confucianism

Question 3

Li Dazhao

Answer 3

(1888-1927) Chinese intellectual who gave serious attention to Marxist philosophy; headed study circle at the University of Beijing; saw peasants as vanguard of revolutionary communism in China

Question 4

Mao Zedong

Answer 4

(1893-1976) communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and the role of peasants in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led communist reaction against Guomingdang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Grea Leap Forward in 1958

Question 5

Guomingdang

Answer 5

chinese Nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1919; drew support from local warlords and chinese criminal underworld; initially forged alliance with Communist in 1924; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925

Question 6

Chaing Kai-Shek

Answer 6

a military officer who succeeded Yat-sun as the leader of the Guomingdang or Nationalist party in China in the mid 1920s; became the most powerful leader in china in the early 1930s,but his nationalist forces were defeated and driven from china by the Commmunists after ww2

Question 7

Long March

Answer 7

communist escape from Hunan province during civil war with Guomingdang in 1934; center of Communist power moved to Shaanxi province; firmly established Mao Zedong as head of the Communist party in China