1911 Empire overthrown; republic; warlords.
1927 Kuomingtang under Chiang Kai-Shek unifies most of China.
1931 Japan invades Manchuria.
1932 Japanese occupy Yixian, Jinzhou. “Manchukuo” established under Pu Yi.
1934 Long March: Communists to Yan’an.
1937 Japan attacks deep into China. Communist-Kuomingtang alliance.
1945 Japanese surrender. Jinzhou occupied by Russians. Chinese communists, and Kuomingtang.
1946 – 1948 Kuomingtang-Communist Civil War
1948 Siege of Jinzhou.
1949 People’s Republic Proclaimed. Communists take Sichuan. Chiang Kai-Shek to Taiwan.
1950 Land reform. China enters Korean War(to July 1953).
1951 Campaign to “suppress counterrevolutionaries” (Hui-ge executed). Three Anties Campaign.
1952 Five Anties Campaign.
1955 Campaign to “uncover hidden counter-revolutionaries” Nationalization.
1956 Hundred Flowers.
1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign.
1958 Great Leap Forward: backyard steel furnaces and communes.
1959 Famine (to 1961). Peng Dehuai challenges Mar, condemned. Campaign to catch “rightist opportunists”.