Timeline

Created by

Connor McKeown

Cards (29)

What happened in 1898 
100 days reform - Guangxu under houst arrest - Cixi took control
What happened in 1900? 
The Boxer Uprising - Cixi fled
What happened in 1902? 
Cixi returned and tried to implement new reforms
What happened in 1908? 
Puyi + Prince Chun gained power
What happened in 1911? 
The 1911 (double tenth) revolution
What happened in 1912? 
Puyi abdicated and Yuan Shikai gained power
What happened in 1915? 
Yuan Shikai tried to make himself emperor
What happened in 1916? 
Yuan Shikai dies and warlords gain power
What happened in 1919? 
The treaty of versailles and the May 4th movement
What happened in 1921? 
The CCP was set up by Chen Duxiu
What happened in 1925? 
Sun yet sen dies - CKS takes over the GMD
What happened in 1927
The Shanghai Massacres - End of the United Front
What happened in 1930
Start of the Extermination Campaigns against the Communists
What happened in 1931
The Japanese invasion & occupation of Manchuria
What happened in 1934
Communists begin the Long March
What happened in 1937
Start of the Sino-Japanese War - Rape of Nanjing
What happened in 1945
Outbreak of Civil War between GMD + CCP
What happened in 1949
Establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC)
What happened in 1950
Agrarian Reform Law - Marriage Law - Treaty of Friendship, Alliance & Mutual Assistance with Soviet Union
What happened in 1951
Introduction of Thought Reform
What happened in 1952
Introduction of first Five Year Plan
What happened in 1957
Hundred Flowers campaign begins
What happened in 1958
The Great Leap Forward
What happened in 1962
Sin-Soviet Split
What happened in 1966
Mao launches the Cultural Revolution
What happened in 1976
Death of Mao - Rise & Fall of Gang of Four
What happened in 1978
Deng Xiaoping becomes leader of China
What happened in 1979
Beginning of Democracy Movement - Introduction of one-child policy
What happened in 1989
Deng crushes protests in Tiananmen Square