A. Yuan Shikai was a powerful general who made the president Sun Yixian step down to power. Sun hoped that Yuan would unite China but he instead had other plans making himself the sole ruler and emperor.
B. The twenty-one demands were given by Japan to China saying that they should be a protectorate. China to weak to fight agreed to some of these demands.
C. May Fourth Movement was in 1919, when student protests erupted across Beijing and throughout cities in China. They claimed "China's territory may be conquered but it cannot be given away!"
D. Guomindang was a nationalist party that supported Sun Yixian and his establishment of a government in south China.
E. Jiang Jieshi was an energetic young army officer. His goal was to reunite China whether it be by communism or democratic purposes.
F. Mao Zedong was a man who believed that communists should seek support not among the small urban working class but among all peasants. He later redistruputed land and provided health care.
G. Long March was led by Jiang Jieshi in order to destroy the "red bandits" known as communists. In 1934, Mao and his 100,000 followers fled Guomindang. During the next year they traveled more than 6,000 miles.
H. Rape of Nanjing was when Jiang retreated to Chongqing. There the Japanese brutally killed people in the city known as the "rape of Nanjing".
2.
The new republic of China fell into chaos in 1912 when Sun Yixian bowed down to a powerful general Yuan Shikai. Yuan wanted to change China into the old ways with an emperor.
3.
A. The western ideas that appealed to Chinese reformers were the ideas of Marxism and Lenin.
B. These reforms set up in the 1920s a small group of Chinese communists.
4.
A. Sun Yixian wanted China to unite and be one.
B. Jiang Jieshi wanted to unite China as well.
C. Mao Zedong wanted communists to seek support not among the small urban working class but among all peasants.