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14 Cards in this Set
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Fourth Nationalist Army
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-mutinied in the aftermath of the massacre of 1927
-parts of it had dispersed to southern central and northern china |
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Zhu De
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1886-1976
-ardent communist -Mao Zedong's chief military advisor -Commander in chief of People's Liberation Army |
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Jiangxi Soviet
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Est. 1928 (end 1934)
-experimental rural communist government led by mao zedong -Lasted until GMD bloackaded the area forcing communists to escape north in what became the long march |
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Red Army
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-communist army
-zhu de = commander in chief |
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Li Lisan
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1900-67
-leader of communist party but removed from the position in 1930 because he insisted that the urban proletariat, not the peasants, would be the dominant force in chinese revolution |
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"middle peasants"
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left largely unaffected by Mao's rise to power in the 1930s
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Zunyi Conference
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1935
-important meeting of highest-level communist leaders -discussed failure of the party in Jiangxi -Marked as an important step in Mao's rise to power |
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Yan'an
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region in the shaanxi provice that served as the CCP base from the end of the long march (1936) until its seizure by GMD forces (1947)
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Kwantung Army
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A japanese army that, in 1931, seized Manchuria and from there they seeped into northern China, beginning a process to wreak havoc in China and in all of asia.
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Zhang Xueliang
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b. 1900
-established a power base in Manchuria -pledged allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek in 1928 but kidnapped him in 1936 (xi'an incident) to force a united chinese front against the japanese |
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Manchurian Incident
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1931
-manchuria was seized and occupied by the kwantung army |
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Manchukuo
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1932
-puppet regime the japanese formed in manchuria |
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Henry Puyi
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1932-45
-last emperor of Qing dynasty -installed by the japanese as the figurehead of Manchukuo |
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Tanggu Truce
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1933
-a humiliating truce proposed by the japanese signed by the chinese -declared the Hebei province a demilitarized zone |
