THE QING FALLS
This royal family ruled China from 1644 until 1911
Qing Dynasty
This man led the Kuomintang and overthrew the last Chinese emperor
Sun Yixian
China joined this war in 1917 hoping to recover lost land
World War I
Jiang Jieshi's main supporters were these two groups of people
Bankers and businesspeople
A military leader who controls land by force outside of the national government
Warlord
The number of years the Qing dynasty ruled China
268
This man took over the Kuomintang after Sun Yixian died in 1925
Jiang Jieshi
This peace agreement gave Chinese territories to Japan instead of returning them
The Treaty of Versailles
This leader divided captured land among poor farmers to win their loyalty
Mao Zedong
A formal agreement between two or more groups to work together
Alliance
This word describes how Chinese people felt when foreign countries controlled their trade and resources
Humiliated
Sun Yixian described China's 400 million people as this — meaning divided and weak
A heap of loose sand
This many students gathered in Beijing on May 4, 1919
3,000
Unlike Lenin, Mao believed revolution would come from these people
Peasants / poor rural farmers
A system where the government owns all land and resources
Communism
un Yixian's three goals were nationalism, people's livelihood, and _________
Democracy
This Communist Party founder served as premier of China since 1949
Mao Zedong
The May Fourth Movement turned many Chinese intellectuals toward this ideology
Communism
In April 1927, Nationalist soldiers massacred Communist leaders and workers in this city
Shanghai
A poor farmer who works the land and owns little or nothing
Peasant
After this man died in 1916, warlords took control of China
Yuan Shikai
Mao Zedong had this job before becoming a revolutionary leader
Librarian
Explain why the May Fourth Movement was a turning point for China
It pushed intellectuals away from Western democracy toward Soviet communism, changing China's ideological direction
ive two specific reasons why peasants supported Mao over Jiang
Any two — Mao gave land to peasants; Jiang's government was corrupt; Mao trained guerrilla fighters; Jiang ignored the poor
A war fought between opposing groups inside the same country
Civil War