Revolutionary Chaos in China
Ariel Gardner, Annabelle Ackling, and Charli Swinton
Nationalist and Communist
- in the 1920's two political forces began
- Sun Yat- Sen's Nationalist party and the Chinese communist party
- Sun Yat- Se- Leader of the nationalists, welcomed the cooperation
- Communists and Nationalists worked together to mobilized and train a revolutionary army to march north
- In the next spring revolutionary forces took control of all of China south of the Chang Jiag.
- In April of 1927 Chiang Kai-shek took over Sun Yat-sen.
- He struck against communist and killed thousands, this was called the Shanghai Massacre
- In 1982, Chiang Kai-sheek founded a new Chinese republic called "Nanjing"
The Long March
The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army or the Communist party of China against the PLA.
- Chaing's group surrounded Mao's army
- Mao's army- PLA or (Peoples Liberation Army)
- Starting with 90,000 ending with only around 9,000
- March led Mao becoming the single leader of the communist party.
The new China under Chaing Kai-Sheek
- Chaing Kai-Shek had declared publicly his plans of Sun Yut-sen, which called for a republican government
- Chaing announced a period of training to prepare Chinese people for a final stage of the constitutional government. Until then, Dictatorial power land reform programs and modernized industry.
- New life movement's goal was to promote traditional Confucian social ethics, such as integrity, propriety, and righteousness.
- Redistribution of wealth- shifting of wealth from a rich minority to a poor majority.
Lecture- Revolutionary Chaos in China
The Shanghai Massacre
Chaing ordered the 26th army to disarm all workers and military people, killing and wounding more than 300. The union ordered a big meeting denouncing Chaing Kai-Shek. Chaing took all labor unions and all other organizations into communist control. Over a thousand communist were arrested, 300 were executed and 5,000 went missing.
Chaing Kai-Sheek
Leader of the Chinese nationalists; in April 1927, he pretended to be in alliance with the Communists but attacked them in the Shanghai Massacre
Mao Zendog
leader of the Communists against Chiang Kai-shek, believed the revolution depended on the peasants, not the working class
Sun Yat-Sen
Leader of the Chinese nationalists until his death in 1925, welcomed cooperation of Soviet Union
Essential Questions
- Why did the Communist party allie with the Nationalist party? To gain control of China in the 1920's.
- What did Maos long march accomplish? It prevented the destruction of the Red Army.