People
The late-Qing intellectual who initiated the Hundred Days Reform Movement in 1898
Kang Youwei
Students in Beijing protested against the stipulations of this treaty.
The Versailles Treaty
The first large-scale experiment in building a socialist society.
The last Qing emperor abdicated.
1912.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek started massacring communists in this city.
Shanghai.
The most famous author in Republican China. The writer of A Mad Man's Diary.
Lu Xun
The Comintern-backed alliance between the CCP and the KMT to overthrow the warlords and unify the country
United Front.
Chiang Kai-shek's effort to create a militarized society that drew its legitimacy from nativist principles.
New Life Movement
Nanjing Decade.
1927-1937
The capital of the Republic of China from 1927 to 1937.
Nanjing.
Sun Yat-sen
In 1926, the KMT's Revolutionary Army under Chiang Kai-shek initiated this expedition to fight against the warlords and unify the country.
The Northern Expedition
Mao wrote this piece to convince the CCP of the peasants' significance in a revolutionary movement.
The Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan
The Chinese Communist Party was founded.
1921
The province that the Jiangxi Soviet bordered in the east.
Fujian.
The late-Qing feminist author who portrayed herself with a sword in male garment
Qiu Jin.
The year-long march of the Red Army to escape from the KMT.
The Long March (1934-35)
The secret organization that founded the Blue Shirts and other right-wing organizations during the Nanjing Decade.
Lixingshe (The Society of Rigorous Practice)
The start of the White Terror.
1927.
The Whampoa Military Academy was established in this city.
Canton (Guangzhou)
The Comintern agent who was present in the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Henk Sneevliet (also known as Maring)
Mao's revolutionary base before the Jiangxi Soviet
Jinggangshan Base.
The Conference where Mao declared independence from Moscow, Stalin, and Comintern, and assumed full authority over the CCP.
The United Front was formed between the CCP and the KMT
1923
Mao's home province.
Hunan.