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Chinese Republic

Chinese Republic. 1911 - 1949. Ideas of Sun Yat Sen. Dr. Sun is the father of the Chinese Revolution Wrote 3 principles of the people nationalism, democracy, and livelihood. Sun Yat Sen. Sun establishes the Kuomintang (KMT) incorporated Communist Party (CCP) into the military (1923)

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Chinese Republic

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  1. Chinese Republic 1911 - 1949

  2. Ideas of Sun Yat Sen • Dr. Sun is the father of the Chinese Revolution • Wrote 3 principles of the people • nationalism, democracy, and livelihood

  3. Sun Yat Sen • Sun establishes the Kuomintang (KMT) • incorporated Communist Party (CCP) into the military (1923) • Dr. Sun dies before fulfilling his dream of a united China'

  4. Chiang Kai-shek rules China • takes leadership after Sun's death • expels CCP from the military • China lacked national unity • Communists were against Chiang

  5. WARLORD PROBLEM • Provincial warlords with their own armies complicate Chiang’s control of China • General Tso

  6. Japan invades • Chiang fights Mao Zedong • Mao retreats towards Russia • Japan attacks China • Nationalists and Communists join forces • Japan defeated in WWII

  7. JAPANESE ATROCITIES • RAPE OF NANJING

  8. UNIT 731 • Cruel and barbaric medical experiments on Chinese prisoners and peasants • Developed germ warfare weapons • Doctors never punished

  9. Civil War in China • Nationalists and Communists fight each other again after World War II. • US supports Nationalists with billions of $$ • Communists win the war • Nationalists flee to Taiwan • At right, memorial to Chiang Kai-Shek in Taiwan • China considers Taiwan a “breakaway province,” U.S. considers it the legitimate government of China.

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