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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion is known as one of the most important events to ever happen to China in the 19th century. Hong Xiuquan was highly insipired by the views of Christian teachings and sought to believe that he was the son of God and the younger sibling to Jesus Christ himself. From there, one of Hong's friends started a group called the God Worshippers Society and led them into rebellion. text: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580815/Taiping-Rebellion -
Wuchang Uprising
The Wuchang Uprising began when ammunition exploded in one of the army bases on October 9th. This gave the people wanting to revolt an opportunity to go against the Qing Dynasty.
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Wuchang Uprising
The Wuchang Uprising began when ammunition exploded in one of the army bases on October 9th. This gave the people wanting to revolt an opportunity to go against the Qing Dynasty.
Text: http://xiaoshi
Image: http://xiaoshixue.squarespace.com/revolution-and-early-republic/2012/4/18/1911-wuchang-uprising.html -
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Mukden Incident
The Mukden Incident deals with the Japanese invading all of Manchuria. They were "put on the fence" when China managed to unify themselves and pressure followed them from the northern borders.
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Long March
The Long March surpassed 4,000 miles and deemed Mao as their leader. This dealt with Chinese communists tearing through Nationalist lines and lasted about a year until they broke into their headquarters which was located in southwest China.
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Nanking Massacre
The Chinese Nationalist Goverment moved the capitol Beijing to Nanking and the population sky-rocketed to a whopping 1 million. Many of the Japanese were fleeing from the armies that had landed there. Many people were killed, raped, etc.
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Founding Date of the Republic of China
The Republic of China was formed October 1, 1949 and proclaimed Beijing as its capitol. With this being established, four social classes came into the picture: the workers, the peasants, the petite bourgeoisie, and the national-capitalists, according to the article.
text: http://www.chaos.umd.edu/history/prc.html
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Chinese Nationalists move capital to Taiwan
Chiang Kai- Shek had decided to leave for Taiwan and this marked the start of something they knew as the "two chinas". It showed the difference between Mao and the Chinese Nationalist forces.
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Seventeen Point Agreement with Tibet
The agreement was a peace offering for liberation. It was signed in Beijing. Basically, the agreement wanted the Tibetan people to come together and handle situations in the proper manner.
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Great Leap Forward
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Cultural Revolution
Mao was trying to restablish himself in Chinese beliefs. He thought other might come into power due to his lack of being intact with his country and he decided that it was his time to show them who was really in charge and ahead of the game.
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The May 16 Notification
The May 16 Notification told the people of China that the Great Cultural Revolution had arisen. This was, at first, reserved for the upper class but once word had gotten out many things that symbolized the past were burned.
text: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-happened-on-may-16.htm
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People's Republic of China admitted to UN
Taiwan was expelled out of the Chinese area. Once the People's Republic gained rep from overseas they deemed them the rightful owners of China. It dealt with lawful rights.
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Nixon visits China
When Nixon decided to endure on a trip to China, it ended 25 years of isolation between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China and built a relationship between the two.
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Gang of Four Arrested
When Mao passed away in 1976, there was no one to come into power. Zhou Enlai, who came after him, also passed away the same year. Deng Xiapong had caused the Tiananmen Square riots and the only one left was Hua Gaofeng who was challenged by Jiang Qing (the widow of Mao), Zhang Chungquiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen also known as the Gang of Four according to the article.
text: http://www.dhahranbritish.com/history/A14_gang4.htm
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One Child Policy instituted
In a letter from the Chinese Communist Party to the public of China, the citizens were only obligated to have one child per household. More than one was unpraised. This was created due to Mao encouraging families to have lots and lots of kids so much that people had 4 children in their homes. The government believed with a restriction on population growth it would bring an increase in the economy.
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Tiananmen Square Protests
The protests were based on the Chinese fighting for a democracy and forcing their government to give them more of what they needed as people like better housing. This is known as one of the largest protests holding over a million people.
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Hong Kong Returned to China
Before the Chinese gained control of Hong Kong, the British owned and had power over it. Hong Kong was handed over to Tung Chee-Hwa from Mr. Pattern in Great Britian.
text: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hong-kong-returned-to-china
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Macau returned to China
After 442 years under the rule of Portugal, Macau handed themselves over to Chinese territory. It was under the “one country, two systems” model and followed in suit with Hong Kong. 500 troops also crossed the line the same day.
text: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/353703/Macaus-Return-to-China-Year-In-Review-1999
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Hainan Island incident
A U.S. spy plane was flown out of Hainan Island out of the Lingshui airbase in China. This plane had collided with a Chinese fighter jet and killed the man in it.
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Building of the Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam has a total of 32 generators and is the world's largest hydropower excelerator. It's supposed to help to decrease the amount of flooding and store water during hot and dry days.
text: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178951/Three-Gorges-Worlds-powerful-dam-opens-China-gushing-water-generates-power-15-nuclear-reactors.html
