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1911

Revolution against the manchu empire

numero 1 revolution

1912

end of the Manchu Qing dynasty, proclamation of the republic of Sun Yat-Sen

first new china

1912

abdication of the emperor

bye bye emperor

1919

student movement

movement of young people

1921

founding of the communist party of china CPC

Nasderovia

1925

Death of Sun Yat-sen succeeded by Chiang Kai-Shek in the Kuomintang

death and new leaders

1931

occupation by japan in mashuria

bad bad empire

1934-1935

"long march" communist kuomintang fleeing repression, traveling 10,000 km

walk time

1937-1945

Sino-Japanese war

an asian war

1945

Japanese surrender

White flag

1945

creation of the UN

start of something new

1945

creation of the republic of china from the security council

non communists come

1949

proclamation of the peoples republic of China

PRC

1950

China annexes Tibet

bad bad china

1950

treaty of Sino-Soviet friendship agreement

Chinese Russians

1950

the PRC supports the North in the Korean War

War time

1950

elimination of large landowners and land redistribution

strange agriculture

1954

constitution of the PRC which defines it as a people's democracy

CONSTITION

1955

Bandung conference

Poor nations breakfast club

1956

Sino-soviet split initiated by the 20th congress of the CPSU

No more chinese russians

1956

Deng Xiaoping became General Secretary of the central committee

Deng Xiaoping the greatest come up story

1956-1957

Hundred flowers campaing authorising intellectual pluralism, followed by brutal repression

flowery

1957-1959

anti rightist repression after the 100 flowers campaign

that repression ting

1958-1959

Great leap forward, collectivisation of land and creation of communes to develop the economy

Big jump

1959-1961

famine from Great leap forward

actions have consequences

1964

France is the first western country to recognise the PRC

france throwing a bone

1964

First chinese nuclear test

BOOOOOOOOOM

1966-1976

cultural revolution, party elites are repressed by the red guard

Culture things

1969

border incidents with USSR

not a fight u wanna start bro

1971

Admission of the PRC to the UN, where beijing gets the seat held by Taiwan since 1949

Finally some recognition

1972

Richard Nixon's visit, paves the way for normalisation with the USA

US-PRC

1976

Mao zedong dies so does zhu Enlai. 'Gang of Four' arrested for instigating the Cultrual revolution

so much death and turmoil

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 ****

1979

creation of SEZs to attract foreign investors (FDI)

some dodgy eco stuff

1985

reconcialiation with the USSR

CHINESE RUSSIANS AGAIN

1989

Beijing spring/Tiananmen square to demand more freedom. Deng Xiaoping crushes the 'counter revolutionnaries' with the army

The revolutionaries are not revolutionaries

1992

Communist Party officialy endorses the socialist market economy.opponents of the line are discarded

WWOOOOOO money

1997

Great britain hands Hong Kong over to China

Bye Bye Hong Kong

1999

bombing by the usa of the chinese embassy in Yugoslavia

BOOOOM bye bye embassy

2001

China in the WTO

China to trade stuff

2003

Three gorges Dam on the yantze River, the largest of the world

Big damn

2008

beijing olympics

sports in china

2011

Japan Gives way for China to be second largest economy

china winning the race