Post on 17-Dec-2015
Imperial China Collapses
Chapter 30 Section 3
Republic of China
• 1911, Qing Dynasty is overthrown
• Qing ruled China since 1644
• 1912, Republic of China was established
Sun Yixian
May Fourth Movement
Democracy vs. Communism
Democracy in China Communism in China
Jiang Jieshi Mao Zedong
Civil War in China (1928-1949)
• Communists (Red Army) vs. Nationalists
• The Long March (1934-1935)
• 1937, civil war came to a halt in order to fight Japan
The Long March
• 1934-1935• 6,000 Miles Long• Crossed Swamplands• Crossed 18 Mountain
Ranges• Crossed 24 Rivers
The Luding Bridge
"The Long March is a manifesto. It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their running dogs, Chiang Kai-shek and his like, are impotent. It has proclaimed their utter failure to encircle, pursue, obstruct and intercept us. The Long March is also a propaganda force. It has announced to some 200 million people in eleven provinces that the road of the Red Army is their only road to liberation.“
-Mao Zedong
“The greatest strategic retreat in military history turned Mao into a living legend.”
—Roderick MacFarquhar, Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor, A&E Biography, 2005