This was Sun Yat Sens three principles
What is Nationalism, Democracy, Social and economic reform?
What is the Northern Expedition?
This was the name for the area the CCP controlled where they lived and worked with the peasants and brought many reforms such as land redistribution, health and education reforms.
What is the Yenan Soviet?
This was a clause that Japan wanted to add to the Paris Peace Conference to guarantee that they would not be treated unequally based on their race.
What is the racial equality clause?
This was a protest by intellectuals and students protesting for Western values, end of foreign influence, destruction of warlords, plus many more things
Sometimes called the Golden Decade, this was a decade in China where a lot of good reforms changed China.
What is the Nanking Decade?
These were people within the CCP who favored a more Soviet Union style revolution focusing on workers and industrialism.
Who are the 28 Bolsheviks?
Because these were away doing training drills is one reason that the attack at Pearl Harbor was unsuccessful.
What are aircraft carriers?
He was the interim ruler when the Manchu empress died and rule was to be passed to 3 year old Pu Yi.
This is what Japan used to justify their invasion of Manchuria after an explosion went off near a Japanese owned railway.
What is the Mukden Incident?
This was Mao's purge of anyone within the CCP that he suspected to be against him.
What is the Rectification movement?
USA's embargo on this important item was one major reason for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is oil.
This is why the KMT joined the CCP to form the First United Front.
What is the fact that CCP had support from USSR and would gain those resources?
This was when Chiang was kidnapped and forced to focus on fighting the Japanese with the support of the CCP instead of only fighting the CCP.
What is the Xi'an Incident?
This was how Chaing Kai Shek slowed down the advance of the Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, while in the meantime killing about a million Chinese and making another million or more homeless.
What is flooding the Yellow River?
This was a false flag attack that Japan used to justify the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
What is the incident at Marco Polo Bridge?
This was when, during the Northern Expedition, the KMT forces came into contact with Japanese in the Shantung Province and several thousand KMT soldiers were killed.
What is the Jinan Incident?
This is the name the Japanese gave the puppet-state they set up in Manchuria with Pu Yi back as the figure head.
What is Manchukuo?
This was a propaganda battle where the CCP claimed to defeat a large KMT force when in actuality it was just a few soldiers warlord soldiers who ran away.
What is the Battle of Luding Bridge?
This was when 11 naval officers assassinated the Japanese Prime Minister and were only given small punishments.
What is the May 15th incident?