Time Line
1928 April: Mao Zedong promulgates the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention July 11th: The CCP concludes its month long party congress in Moscow October 1st: Jiang Jieshi is elected chairman of the National government of China 1929 February 10th: Communist troops commanded by Mao Zedong and Zhu De establish a base at Ruijin 1930 February: The CCP implements the ‘Li Lisan Line’ June: The Hunan Soviet is established July-August: The CCP attempts a series of assaults on urban centres November: The Nationalist army to begin ‘Bandit Suppression campaigns’ against the communists in Jiangxi 1931 January: The CCP comes under the leadership of Wang Ming July-September: Jiang Jieshi’s Third Encirclement Campaign against the communists in Jiangxi fails September 18th: The Mukden Incident leads to a Japanese military occupation of Manchuria November: The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed with Mao Zedong as its chairman 1932 January 28th; The ‘Shanghai Incident’ 1933 January: The Nationalists launch the Fourth Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi 1934 August: Jiang Jieshi’s government signs a trade deal with Nazi Germany October 16th: Mao Zedong’s First Red Army breaks out of the Nationalist encirclement, the beginning of the Long March November 30th: The Battle of Xiang River ends 1935 February: Mao Zedong’s wife, He Zizhen gives birth to a daughter on the Long March and is forced to abandon her 1937 July 7th: The Marco Polo Bridge incident sparks a war with Japan December 13th: Japanese forces occupy the former Nationalist capital Nanjing 1938 June 7th: Nationalist soldiers blow up dykes alone the Yellow River to slow the Japanese advance into central and southern China October 27th: Japanese forces capture Wuhan 1939 September 1st: German forces invade Poland December: Former Guomindang leader Wang Jingwei signs a secret deal with the Japanese 1941 January: Nationalist and CCP forces come into conflict in Anhui, this clash effectively ends the Second United Front December 7th: Japan attacks Pearl Harbour and the United States enters the war against Japan and Germany December 8th: China formally declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan 1945 August 6th and 15th: The US Air Force drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 9th: Soviet Russian troops enter Manchuria to combat the Japanese August 14th: Jiang Jieshi’s Nationalist government signs the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with the USSR September 2nd: Japanese forces in the Pacific and China sign the instruments of surrender, bringing World War II and the Sino-Japanese War to an end October: The Chongqing peace talks end after six weeks December 23rd: The US Army arrives in China, tasked with negotiating a ceasefire and organising a coalition government 1946 January 11th-31st: A consultative committee meets to negotiate a settlement to the civil war and organise a coalition government May 1st: The CCP Red Army is reformed as the People’s Liberation Army May 5th: The Nationalist capital moves from Chongqing back to Nanjing June: The Nationalist-CCP truce collapses and fighting in the post-World War II civil war commences 1947 February 28th: The ‘228 Massacre’. March 19th: Nationalist troops overrun the former CCP soviet in Yan’an April-May: Communist troops launch offensives against Nationalist positions in Shaanxi, Shandong and Manchuria 1948 November 2nd: Manchuria under communist control 1949 January: CCP forces capture Beijing with minimal resistance April: CCP capture Nanjing, the Nationalist capital. June 30th: Mao Zedong delivers his speech “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship” |
CAUSE AND EFFECT
When the Nationalists turned on the Communists the effect was killing them or purging them from the part |