Warlord China-1912-27

Question 1

When was Yuan Shikai president of China?

Answer 1

1912-1916

Question 2

The constitutional republic was set up in ____ was meant to be democracy, with an elected parliament sharing the tasks of government and with President ____ ______.

Answer 2

1912

Yuan Shikai

Question 3

Elections for a parliament known as the ______ ________were in 1913.

Answer 3

National Assembly

Question 4

In the elections in 1913 a new party set up by _____ ______ won majority of the seats in the National Assembly. This was the people’s party
or ________.

Answer 4

Sun Yatsen

Guomindang

Question 5

True or False

Yuan Shikai was not interested in in sharing power with a parliament dominated by Sun Yatsen’s party.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What did Yuan Shikai do that seemed defiant in the National Assembly?

Answer 6

He quickly began to ignore the Assembly’s, esepcially when it proved to be inefficient, corrupt and slow to make decisions.

Question 7

Yuan clearly intended to rule China as ____ not a democrat.

Answer 7

Dictator

Question 8

In Jan 1914 Yuan Shikai dissolved the National Assembly after making himself president for the next ____ years and giving himself _____ powers.

Answer 8

10

Wide

Question 9

What did the Europeans support Yuan Shikai?

Answer 9

They wanted a strong government in china to protect their trading interests their.

Question 10

By the end of 1914 Yuan was ruling as a dictator and _____ of 18 provinces were under his control. Military governors in these provinces made sure that they stayed ____ to Yuan.

Answer 10

12

Loyal

Question 11

By 1915 Yuan felt confident enough to make himself _____.

Answer 11

Emperor

Question 12

It was an Ancient Chinese tradition that a strong general who overthrew a weak emperor, as Yuan had done, should _____ China under his own rule and found a new _______.

Answer 12

Unite

Dynasty

Question 13

What is the mandate of heaven? And when did Yuan accept it?

Answer 13

The right of the emperor to rule ‘all the land that lies under heaven.

Question 14

What did Yuan want to call his dynasty?

Answer 14

The Grand Constitutional Era -the 27th in China’s in 2000 year history

Question 15

Which 3 groups opposed Yuan’s Plan to become emperor?

Answer 15

• Sun Yatsen’s party,Guomindang,which was a democratic government
• Several generals in Yuan’s army which feared they’d lose authority.
• Japanese governement which had plans to bring alrge areas of China under its control.

Question 16

What were the twenty one demands?

Answer 16

The Japanese government demanding control of many of China’s factories,railways and ports and threatening war if were refused.

Question 17

Were the Chinese population happy that Yuan accepted the TwentyOne Demands?

Answer 17

No they were outraged.

Question 18

On Christmas day 1915 the army in remote Yunnan province _____ against Yuan.

Answer 18

Rebelled

Question 19

When did Yuan drop the plans to become emperor?

Answer 19

When the army that brought him the power opposed him.

Question 20

How did Yuan die?

Answer 20

Stroke/broken heart

Question 21

Yuan Shikai had managed to hold China together under his rule, but after his death there was no leader popular enough to command ____ of Chinese. The result was the collapse of the central government in ______.

Answer 21

Loyalty

Beijing

Question 22

True or false

For the next 11 years from 1916-1927, the Beijing government only controlled a small area around Beijing.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

In the South Guomindang set up a ______ government in Guangzhou. In other areas the generals and the military governors who had opposed Yuan set up their own governments and used their armies to enforce their ______. These men were the ____.

Answer 23

Rival
Authority
Warlords

Question 24

What did the greatest warlords govern?

Answer 24

Whole provinces

Question 25

Within these provinces under their control,groups of generals and officers in control of these ____ areas-cities and counties, for example- and were warlords in their own right. There were hundreds of warlords, and most were interested only in their own ______ and _______, not in helping the people under their rule. They imposed high taxes, enlisted peasants into their armies, and governed with great severity.

Answer 25

Smaller
Wealth
Power