Qing Dynasty
This is the number of Opium Wars China fought with Great Britain
What is two?
This was the political party that fought against the Communists in the Chinese Civil War
What are the Nationalists?
This island country is where the Republic of China continues to exist today
What is Taiwan?
This chaotic period from 1966-1976 called on young people throughout China to "make revolution" and "destroy the old and establish the new"
What is the Cultural Revolution?
He is the current leader of China
What is Canton (Guangzhou)?
Known for his work to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and an early president of the Republic of China, this statesmen is one of the few figures revered in both China and Taiwan
Who is Sun Yat-sen?
This island and surrounding territories was ceded to Britain at the end of the First Opium War
What is Hong Kong?
This period saw Mao try and use mass mobilization to increase agricultural and industrial output and overtake Britain and America, instead resulting in a famine that killed tens of millions
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This event saw a violent crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protests over the night of June 3-4, 1989
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
Also known as the "movement of righteous and harmonious fists," targeting foreign diplomats and missionaries, this was the result of populist anger against foreign incursion into the city of Beijing
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This invasion of the capital in 1937 saw the murder of tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians by Japanese forces
What is the Nanjing Massacre?
This leading figure of Republican China ruled Taiwan as a dictator until his death in the 70s
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This was the name given to Chinese youth who were carrying out Mao's "vision" in the Cultural Revolution
What are Red Guards?
This man became China's first significant leader after Mao, ruling China throughout the 80s and influential until his death in 1997, and launched the economic reforms that helped turn China into the powerhouse it is today
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This war was fought for control over Korea in 1894-1895
What is the First Sino-Japanese War?
This 5,000-mile strategic retreat by the Red Army at the start of the Chinese Civil War led to the rise of Mao Zedong
What is the Long March?
This ethnic group has suffered continued persecution and oppression in Xinjiang at a high level since 2014
Who are the Uyghurs?
This set of policies saw poor Chinese farmers acquire land and some wealth for the first time, but also resulted in violent attacks on landlords
What is Land Reform?
Shenzhen was one of these, cities granted permission to pursue free market and free trade policies as experiments for larger reform
What is a Special Economic Zone?
One side of this civil war (one of the largest and bloodiest in history) was led by a man who claimed to be the brother of Jesus
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This was the name given to two separate periods of cooperation between Communists and Nationalists
What is a United Front?
This is the date on which Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People's Republic of China in Tiananmen Square
What is October 1st, 1949?
This period began when Mao asked for debate on the direction of the country, and ended with the debaters targeted during the subsequent Anti-Rightist Campaign
What is the Hundred Flowers Movement?
This 1992 trip to Shenzhen and other cities by China's then leader signaled that economic reforms were not being halted, reigniting China's economic growth
What is the Southern Tour?