The Opium War And Chinese Civil War

Tea and Opium Connection

British East India Trading Company establishes a foothold in China

Opium grown in India sold in China

Opium Addiction in China skyrockets

British sell opium to ChinaAnd gain influence

In China

British use profits to buy Tea which is sold

in UK also use profits toBuy more land in

India

British buy land in India and forcePeople to grow poppy plants and

process it into opium

Collection of Poppy Seeds and Flowers

Opium War

Chinese tell British to stop selling and they refuse

British use advancements in warships and other weapons to defeat Chinese

British win easily Treaty of Nanjing: British gain

Hong Kong and extraterritorial rights

Taiping Rebellion

Chinese emperors lose power

Europeans and Americans gain influence

Open Door Policy- forces China’s ports to be open to all countries

Boxer Rebellion

Chinese dock workers rebel against foreigners.

Foreigners maintain influence in China.

People start to lose confidence in emperor.

Rise of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists)

Kuomintang overthrows China’s emperor.

Nationalists and Communists unite to fight warlords.

Nationalists did not trust Communists and attempt to get rid of them.

Chinese Civil War 1927-1947

Nationalists Jiang Jieshi or

Chiang Kai Shek Get rid of foreigners Capitalist Individual owns

business Middle and upper

class Allies- USA

Chinese Civil War

Communists Mao Zedong Get rid of foreigners Businesses owned

by government Commoners, working

class, and lower class

Allies- Soviet Union

Pre World War II results

Nationalists were winning

Communists forced to go on Long March

Civil War takes a break when Japanese invade China

Post World War II

Japan commits war crimes against China- Rape of Nanjing

Nationalists blamed for not protecting people

People join Communists= they win Chinese Civil War

Nationalists fled to Taiwan

China falls to communism

Mao’s Communist China

Great Leap Forward Commune Farms Propaganda Cultural Revolution Indoctrination Red Guard / Secret

Police