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World History
Ms. Avar
Point Value:
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Changes in
China
KEY
Instructions: Use the notes from Ms. Avar to complete the information below.
(If you were absent, make an appointment to see the sample binder or visit our class webpage)
Since the early 1900s, foreign countries have controlled China’s trade and economic resources  they
were ready for change.
Kuomintang
 The Nationalist Party
o Wanted more modernization, nationalism, and no more emperors. Overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
 Sun Yixian was one of the first leaders – considered “Father of modern China”
o Wanted political and economic rights for all Chinese people.
o Did not have the support of the military
May Fourth Movement
 Demonstrations all over China protesting the Treaty of Versailles - and the Allies - for giving German
land around China to Japan, and not returning control of China to the Chinese.
Jiang Jieshi (aka Chiang Kai-shek)
 Leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) after Sun Yixian
 Didn’t like the Communists in China, and almost destroyed them in the Shanghai Massacre
Mao Zedong
 A protestor in the May Fourth Movement
 Leader of the Chinese Communist Party and Communist revolution
 Fought against the corruption of Jiang’s government
 Had support of the peasants
Long March
 6,000 mile long journey the Communists were forced to take – their escape to safety after being
surrounded by Nationalist forces during the civil war (between the Nationalists and Communists)