GOV 1280 Study

1840-1842

First Opium War

1842

Treaty of Nanking

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion (peasant rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan)

1861-1894

Self-strengthening movement

1893-1976

Mao Zedong

1894-1895

First Sino-Japanese War (Fought over Korea, failure of self-strengthening)

1895

Treaty of Shimonoseki (Ceded Taiwan to Japan)

1911

Xinhai Revolution/1911 Revolution

1912

Sun elected 1st president and then cedes power to Yuan Shikai

1913

Sun establishes the KMT

1915-16

Yuan becomes emperor, but then abandons monarchy and dies

1917-1927

Warlord decade

1921

CCP founded in Shanghai

1925

Sun dies and Chiang becomes head of the KMT

1926-1928

Chiang Kai-shek’s Northern Expedition

1927-1934

CCP Jiangxi Period

1934-1935

New Life Movement (KMT movement about hygiene, manners)

1934-1935

CCP Long March

1935

Zunyi Conference

1936

Xi’an Incident (Zhang Xueliang held Chiang hostage to force him to unite with the CCP against Japan)

1935-1949

CCP Yan’an Period (Where the CCP fled after the Long March)

1945-1949

Chinese Civil War

1950-1952

Land Reform

1953

First Five Year Plan

Hua Guofeng

1956-1957

Hundred Flowers Campaign

1957

Anti-Rightist Campaign

1959

Lin Biao succeeds Peng Dehuai as defense minister after Lushan Conference

1958-1961

People’s Commune (During the Great Leap Forward famine and the Three Bitter Years)

1966-1969

Red Guards groups form, Red Guard Fanaticism turns into the “Sent-Down” Youth

1971

Lin Biao killed while leaving China

1976

Gang of Four is arrested, marking end of the Cultural Revolution

1978

Third Plenum of the Eleventh Party Congress

1979

Sino-US relations normalized

1898

100 Days’ Reform

1976

Hua Guofeng is promoted to prime minister when Zhou Enlai dies

1958

Liu Shaoqi becomes head of state