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Qing Dynasty was an absolute monarchy and ruled

China beginning the in 1600s.

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In 1912, nationalists overthrew the Qing Dynasty and created a government without a monarch. The new government was not able to help China with their famine and the argriculture was suffering as well.

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After Sun Yixian died, the new head of the Nationalist

Party, Chiang Kai-shek made an alliance with the CCP. This alliance worked together for a couple of years.

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In 1933, a civil war broke out because Shek turned on the CCP and Mao Zedong and 600,000 followers fled to the mountains to avoid being captured by the Nationalists. This was a sign of Mao's dedication to the CCP.

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The Civil war continued on from 1946 to 1949 . Then Mao's communist Red Guards took over the Nationalists and removed them from China's government. The remaing Nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan. In October 1949, Mao proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China. This was a communist government

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In 1958, Mao made a plan called the Great Leap Forward. Mao hoped that it would help China industrialize quickly. Mao also decided to organize all farms into large collectives, where all

ownership and decision making would be in the hands of the government. Many farmers didn't put much effort in because they weren't working for themselves anymore.

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Many of the crops failed in the 1950's and China went through a period of famine. In all, over 20 million people starved to death in the famine. They abandoned the Great Leap Forward in the 1960's. Mao's program he created was a disaster.

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Mao saw his people losing faith in him so he announced the Cultural Revolution in 1966. He urged students to drop out of school and join the Red Guards. It was the Red Guards job to single out and remove anyone who was preventing China from becoming a top society.

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Mao Zedong encouraged students to drop out of school and join the Red Guards. The Red Guards would go around and assualt people that didn't believe in the communist government and economy.

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Anyone who disagreed with Mao would get thrown in jail or worse. The revolution moved on for ten more years until Mao admitted it was a mistake. In 1976, the Red Guards were disbanded and slowly order returned to China.

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Mao died in 1976 and by 1980 Deng Xiaoping was named the leader of China. He was with Mao for a long time dating back to the Long March. He was more relaxed and let the citizens have a little more freedom. He allowed farmers to own a little of their land and to decide what crops they got to grow.

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Deng Xiaoping allowed farmers to own a little of their land and get to decide what crops they get to grow. He allowed some private businesses to organize, and he opened China to foreign investment and technological advances.

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Over 10,000 students gathered to protest what they felt was

corruption in the Chinese government. They called for a move toward democracy.On June 4th, 1984, Xiaoping didn't like what he saw going on in the square ,so he sent in the military and they opened fire on the student protesters. Many of the students were arrested or even killed. The brief democracy movement was destroyed as well, and Xiaoping was left in control. He held power until his death in 1997.