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| 378969928 | Yuan Shikai | warlord in northern China after the fall of the Qing dynasty; president of China in 1912; hoped to become emperor but blocked in 1916 by Japanese intervention in China | 0 | |
| 378969929 | Sun Yat-sen | head of the Revolutionary Alliance that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing; president of China in 1911, but yielded to Yuan Shikai in 1912; created the Guomindang in 1919; died in 1925 | 1 | |
| 378969930 | May 4th Movement | acceptance at Versailles of Japanese gains in China during World War I led to demonstrations and the beginning of a movement to create a liberal democracy | 2 | |
| 378969931 | Li Dazhao | Chinese Marxist intellectual; rejected traditional view and instead saw peasants as the vanguard of socialist revolution; influenced Mao Zedong | 3 | |
| 378969932 | Zhou Enlai | one of the most important Chinese leaders; died in 1976 | 4 | |
| 378969933 | Guomindang (National Party) | founded by Sun Yat-sen in 1919; main support from urban businesspeople and merchants; dominated by Chiang Kai-shek after 1925 | 5 | |
| 378969934 | Chiang Kai-shek | leader of the Guomindang from 1925; contested with the communists for control of China until defeated in 1949 | 6 | |
| 378969935 | Mao Zedong | Communist leader who advocated the role of the peasantry in revolution; led the communists to victory and ruled China from 1949 to 1976 | 7 | |
| 378969936 | Long March | Communist retreat from Hunan under Guomindang pressure in 1934; shifted center of Communist power to Shaanxi province | 8 | |
| 378969937 | Mass Line | economic policy of Mao Zedong inaugurated in 1955; led to formation of agricultural cooperatives that then became farming collectives in1956; peasants lost land gained a few years earlier | 9 | |
| 378969938 | Great Leap Forward | economic policy of Mao Zedong introduced in 1958; proposed small-scale industrialization projects integrated into peasant communities; led to economic disaster and ended in 1960 | 10 | |
| 378969939 | Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqui | pragmatists who, along with Zhou Enlai, opposed the Great Leap Forward; wanted to restore state direction and market incentives at the local level | 11 | |
| 378969940 | Jiang Qing | wife of Mao Zedong; one of the Gang of Four; opposed pragmatists and supported the Cultural Revolution; arrested and imprisoned for life in 1976 | 12 | |
| 378969941 | Cultural Revolution | initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 to restore his dominance over the pragmatists; disgraced and even killed bureaucrats and intellectuals; called off in 1968 | 13 | |
| 378969942 | Red Guard | student brigades active during the Cultural Revolution in supporting Mao Zedong's policies | 14 | |
| 378969943 | Gang of Four | Jiang Qing and her allies who opposed the pragmatists after the death of Mao Zedong; arrested and sentenced to life in prison | 15 | |
| 378969944 | Minh Mang | second ruler of united Vietnam (1802-1841); emphasized Confucianism and persecuted Catholics | 16 | |
| 378969945 | Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDD) | middle class revolutionary organization during the 1920s; committed to violent overthrow of french colonialism; crushed by the French | 17 | |
| 378969946 | Communist Part of Vitenam | the primary nationalist party after the defeat of the VNQDD in 1929; led from 1920s by Ho Chi Minh | 18 | |
| 378969947 | Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Ai Quoc) | shifted to a revolution based on the peasantry in the 1930s; presided over the defeat of France in 1954 and the unsuccessful United States intervention in Vietnam | 19 | |
| 378969948 | Viet Minh | Communist Vietnamese movement; fought the Japanese during World War II and the French afterward | 20 | |
| 378969949 | Vo Nguyen Giap | military commander of the Viet Minh and the victor at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 | 21 | |
| 378969950 | Dien Bien Phu | significant Viet Minh victory over the French that led to the end of the French effort to hold Vietnam | 22 | |
| 378969951 | Ngo Dinh Diem | became president of South Vietnam with United States support in the 1950s; overthrown by the military, with U.S. approval | 23 | |
| 378969952 | Viet Cong | the Communist guerrilla movement in southern Vietnam during the Vietnamese war | 24 |
