May 30th incident-
• general strike in Shanghai, British controlled the land, and there was Japanese factories. Foerigners were exploiting the Chinese working.
• Chinese people marched and demanded better working conditions. British controlled police and authority there. When they marched in to protest the British troops fired into the crowd. Created huge support for anti foreign control.
• This was a response to the slap in the face from the treaties of V. China supported the allies and sent people to help them but got nothing in return. but Japan got the land that they wanted back from Germany.
• Gave fuel to the communist as well. over 30,000 people now for the communist party, the rise of the communist party. yen chikai died in 1916
In 1925, the controller of china is the warlords put in place by yen chikai. The warlords take over after their deaths. 6-8 main warlords, and one of the lords is protecting sun yetsin in canton. He is gaining support by organizing the communist party and the KMT(Chinese Nationalist Party)and CCP(Chinese Communist Party) join together called United Front formed in Canton in 1923. CCP started by...
They take away the land from the rich and give it to the poor. want to create a dictatorship then a democracy. KMT is suns 3 principles of people (democracy, nationalism, and ). Sun ran the United Front because a lot of people trusted him.
Sun Yatsen dies in 1925 in Beijing from cancer. The next person to lead the Front is Chiang Kai-Shek. He was trained in Japan and Russia and military academy. Whompea Military Academy as well. At the academy he trained people in weapons and stuff. The plan was to use Chiang to unite country then once it is done implement a communist system and move him