This country gave materiel support to the Nationalists, especially from 1945 to 1949.
What is the United States?
100
Pu-Yi the last emperor of the Qing abdicated in Febr. of this year.
What is 1912?
100
The defeat in the first opium war (1839-41) led to a hundred years of what some Chinese and western historians have called....
What is a "century of humiliation" ?
100
Revolt of martial arts clubs against foreign missionaries and then all foreigners resulting in major assault on foreigners in the capital city.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
200
Crack down on this date in T-Square.
What is June 4th, 1989?
200
This man survived the Long March in 1934 and became one of the pre-eminent leaders of Communism in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
Dr. Sun Yat-sen (aka Sun Zhong-shan) died in 1925 turning leadership of the republican revolutionary nationalists (guomindang) over to a nationalist military leader.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
200
The so-called "century of humiliation" ended...
In what is 1949 with the victory of the Communist People's Liberation Army over the Nationalists?
200
Defeat in 1894-95 at the hands of these fellow East Asians.
What is the Japanese in the first Sino-Japanese War?
300
Man who was ousted by the party in 1987 and who died in 1989.
What is Hu Yaobang?
300
Where the Japanese committed their gravest atrocities in December, 1937 to February 1938.
What is Nanjing?
300
A small explosion in northern China in 1931 which lightly damaged a Japanese owned railyard.
What is the Mukden or Manchurian incident leading to increase pm numbers of Japanese troops in northern China?
300
In 1992 in a farewell tour Deng Xiaoping gave his blessing these these...
What are the special economic zones - the policies that allowed for foreign investment along coastal China?
300
Last dynasts name.
What are the Qing or Manchu?
400
Ousted by the party in 1989.
What is Zhao Ziyang?
400
This man left for Taiwan in 1949 and was protected there by his army and by the U.S. Navy.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
400
After this alleged kidnapping incident in 1937 just southwest of the capital, Peking, forces from this country attacked and captured all of coastal and northern China from 1937 to 1945.
Who are the Japanese?
400
When the USSR pulled away and withdrew its support from China in 1958, Mao implemented a crash course policy to rapidly develop China with internal labor forces.
What is the "Great Leap Forward"?
400
Chinese were very upset in 1919 because of treaty signed in Europe.
What is the Versailles Treaty?
500
Leader of China's foreign policy under Mao who dies same year as Mao.
What is Zhou En Lai?
500
Died in 1976
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
In 1905 the Qing imperial government agreed to end this practice.
What is having an annual civil service examination with Confucian questions and questions hostile to westerners.
500
Bombard the Headquarters! [of the communist party] was the rather surprising slogan Mao approved of in 1966 which launched...
What is the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"?
500
After 1912 these new rulers of China called themselves 'Nationalists' which in Chinese is....