Zusammenfassung der Ressource
China in revolution
- May 4th Movement
- Japan had seized Chinese port of
Kiaochow where German goods were at
start of WW1
- 1915: 'Twenty-One Demands'
- 1919 Paris Peace Conference: Japan kept
Kiaochow, Twenty-One Demands and
unequal treaties
- 4th May 1919: 10,000 Beijing students
protested. Strikes, protests+boycotts
- Added to 1916 'New Tide' movement
which aimed to get rid of old-fashioned
ideas and to introduce: freedom, equal
rights+ scientific progression
- Guomindang
- Leader: Sun Yatsen
- 'Three Principles' 1924: National
freedom, Democratic government,
People's livelihood
- Aim: unite china under Sun's
leadership and make it a republic
free from foreigners
- Communist
- Mao Zedong set up: 'Society for the study of Marxism' (1918)
- 1921: Chinese Communist Party
- Guomindang+Communist unification
- Sun Yatsen needed help vs. warlords
- Communist USSR sent help
- 1922: joined Communists
- Military academy run by Sun's brother-in-law: Chiang Kaishek