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Is a political party in the Republic of China (ROC). It is the current ruling political party in Taiwan. The name is often translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party. |
Kuomintang |
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A sovereign state in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, it now governs the island of Taiwan, which constitutes more than 99% of its territory following its loss of the mainland China territory in 1949 in the Chinese Civil War. Unitary Semi Presidential St |
Republic of China |
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Japan invades Manchuria in 1931 and then begins The Second Chinese-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) in an attempt to conquer all of China. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War. |
WW2 in Asia |
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Is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. This country is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. |
People's Republic of China |
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Commonly referred to as Chairman, was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. |
Mao Zedong |
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Is a socioeconomic system structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state aims to establish this social order. |
Communism |
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Was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China (1912–49), and medical practitioner. This person is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC) aka Taiwan. |
Sun Yixian |
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Is an economic system in which trade, industries, and the means of production are largely or entirely privately owned and operated for profit.Central characteristics of this include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor and, in many models,competitive markets. |
Capitalism |
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Was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive Chinese territories. |
May Fourth Movement |
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The betrayal of 1927, sometimes called the April 12 Incident, was the violent suppression of Communist Party organizations in Shanghai by the military forces of Jiang Jieshi and conservative factions in the Kuomintang. |
Shanghai Massacre |
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Was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party army. There was not one, but a series of retreats, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. |
The Long March |
