Historical Figures
This man was the first provisional president of the Republic of China and promoted the “Three Principles of the People.”
Who is Sun Yat Sen/ Sun Yixian
In this 1931 event, Japan occupied a key Chinese province, setting off a major international crisis.
What is the invasion of Manchuria?
This movement was influenced by Western Liberalism and called for modernisation, sicence and democracy.
What is the New Culture Movement?
After Yuan Shikai’s death, this period saw local military leaders controlling different regions.
What is the Warlord Era?
The methods used by the CCP to defy both the GMD and Japanese forces.
What are Guerrilla tactics?
He became president after Sun Yat-sen and tried to restore monarchy, earning widespread criticism.
Who is Yuan Shih Kai
This 1926–1928 military campaign aimed to unify China under the Nationalists and end the Warlord Era.
What is the Northern Expedition?
This CCP base was a testing ground for Mao’s rural communist ideas and re-education programs.
What was the Yan'an Soviet?
This term refers to a group of Soviet advisors who worked alongside both the CCP and GMD.
Who were the Comintern?
This nation expanded into China with territorial and nationalist aims.
Japan.
This GMD leader ordered the Shanghai Massacre of 1927.
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai Shek)
This violent 1927 purge saw Communists brutally attacked in Shanghai.
What is the Shanghai Massacre?
This ideological campaign in the early 1940s aimed to consolidate Mao’s control.
What are the Rectification Campaigns?
This 1937 agreement temporarily reunited the GMD and CCP to fight Japan.
What was the Second United Front?
This famous battle saw 22 soldiers crawl accross a wooden plank bridge under machine gun fire from GMD forces.
This Communist leader gained prominence during the Long March and later led the CCP.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This 1934–1935 event involved a strategic retreat by the CCP over 9,000 km.
What is the Long March?
Jiang Jieshi promoted this movement to instill Confucian values and discipline during the Nanjing Decade.
What is the New Life Movement?
The CCP used this strategy of gaining peasant support through reforms in rural areas.
What was Land reform?
The famous attack upon a Chinese City where 300,000 soldiers and civillains were brutally killed, with many further brutalised in other methods.
What was the Rape of Nanjing (Nanking)?
This army general detained Jiang Jieshi during the Xi’an Incident.
Who is Zhang Xueliang?
This 1936 standoff led to a temporary alliance between the CCP and GMD against Japan.
What is the Xi’an Incident?
This term describes the ideological cooperation between the GMD and CCP from 1924–1927.
What was the First United Front?
During the Rectification Campaigns, CCP members were required to confess “errors” through this method.
What is 'Self-Criticism'?
A GMD led event that led to the death of 500,000-900,000 Chinese Civillains during the war.
The flooding of the yellow river.