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43 Cards in this Set
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1911 |
Revolution against the manchu empire |
numero 1 revolution |
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1912 |
end of the Manchu Qing dynasty, proclamation of the republic of Sun Yat-Sen |
first new china |
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1912 |
abdication of the emperor |
bye bye emperor |
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1919 |
student movement |
movement of young people |
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1921 |
founding of the communist party of china CPC |
Nasderovia |
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1925 |
Death of Sun Yat-sen succeeded by Chiang Kai-Shek in the Kuomintang |
death and new leaders |
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1931 |
occupation by japan in mashuria |
bad bad empire |
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1934-1935 |
"long march" communist kuomintang fleeing repression, traveling 10,000 km |
walk time |
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1937-1945 |
Sino-Japanese war |
an asian war |
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1945 |
Japanese surrender |
White flag |
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1945 |
creation of the UN |
start of something new |
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1945 |
creation of the republic of china from the security council |
non communists come |
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1949 |
proclamation of the peoples republic of China |
PRC |
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1950 |
China annexes Tibet |
bad bad china |
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1950 |
treaty of Sino-Soviet friendship agreement |
Chinese Russians |
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1950 |
the PRC supports the North in the Korean War |
War time |
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1950 |
elimination of large landowners and land redistribution |
strange agriculture |
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1954 |
constitution of the PRC which defines it as a people's democracy |
CONSTITION |
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1955 |
Bandung conference |
Poor nations breakfast club |
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1956 |
Sino-soviet split initiated by the 20th congress of the CPSU |
No more chinese russians |
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1956 |
Deng Xiaoping became General Secretary of the central committee |
Deng Xiaoping the greatest come up story |
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1956-1957 |
Hundred flowers campaing authorising intellectual pluralism, followed by brutal repression |
flowery |
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1957-1959 |
anti rightist repression after the 100 flowers campaign |
that repression ting |
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1958-1959 |
Great leap forward, collectivisation of land and creation of communes to develop the economy |
Big jump |
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1959-1961 |
famine from Great leap forward |
actions have consequences |
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1964 |
France is the first western country to recognise the PRC |
france throwing a bone |
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1964 |
First chinese nuclear test |
BOOOOOOOOOM |
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1966-1976 |
cultural revolution, party elites are repressed by the red guard |
Culture things |
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1969 |
border incidents with USSR |
not a fight u wanna start bro |
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1971 |
Admission of the PRC to the UN, where beijing gets the seat held by Taiwan since 1949 |
Finally some recognition |
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1972 |
Richard Nixon's visit, paves the way for normalisation with the USA |
US-PRC |
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1976 |
Mao zedong dies so does zhu Enlai. 'Gang of Four' arrested for instigating the Cultrual revolution |
so much death and turmoil |
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1978 |
Deng Xiaoping rehabilitated after being sidelined during the cultural revolution, launched economic reforms (Four modernisations). beginning of the open economic policy |
some eco stuff and Deng is the **** |
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1979 |
creation of SEZs to attract foreign investors (FDI) |
some dodgy eco stuff |
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1985 |
reconcialiation with the USSR |
CHINESE RUSSIANS AGAIN |
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1989 |
Beijing spring/Tiananmen square to demand more freedom. Deng Xiaoping crushes the 'counter revolutionnaries' with the army |
The revolutionaries are not revolutionaries |
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1992 |
Communist Party officialy endorses the socialist market economy.opponents of the line are discarded |
WWOOOOOO money |
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1997 |
Great britain hands Hong Kong over to China |
Bye Bye Hong Kong |
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1999 |
bombing by the usa of the chinese embassy in Yugoslavia |
BOOOOM bye bye embassy |
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2001 |
China in the WTO |
China to trade stuff |
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2003 |
Three gorges Dam on the yantze River, the largest of the world |
Big damn |
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2008 |
beijing olympics |
sports in china |
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2011 |
Japan Gives way for China to be second largest economy |
china winning the race |