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Jun 26, 2021 · July 1921: Inspired by Russia's October Revolution which broke out in 1917, about a dozen people secretly founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at its first congress in Shanghai, then a...
The Chinese Revolution of 1949. On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War ...
Jul 5, 2021 · One hundred years ago this month, a small group of revolutionaries founded the Chinese Communist Party in secret on a boat floating in a river near French-controlled Shanghai.
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• February 21, 1848: German economist and philosopher Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto, calling for a working-class revolt against capitalism. Its motto, “Workers of the world, unite!” quickly became a rallying cry. • November 7, 1917: With Vladimir Leninat the helm, the Bolsheviks, ascribing to Marxism, seize power du...
• July 1, 1921:Inspired by the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party of China is formed. • January 21, 1924: Lenin dies at age 54 of a stroke, and Joseph Stalin, who had served as Lenin’s general secretary, eventually takes over official rule of the Soviet Union until his death in 1953 from a brain hemorrhage. He industrialized the country throug...
• May 9, 1945: The U.S.S.R. declares victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. With Japan’s defeat, Korea becomes divided into the communist North (which the Soviets occupied) and the South (which had been occupied by the United States). • March 12, 1947: President Harry S. Truman addresses Congress in what would come to be known as the Truman Doc...
• January 1, 1959:Fidel Castro overthrows the corrupt Fulgencio Batista regime, and Cuba becomes a Communist state. • April 25, 1975: Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s capital is seized by communist forces. A few months later, in July, the nation is reunified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under commu...
• November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall—that separated communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin for nearly 30 years—falls. The years 1989-90 see the collapse of communist regimes in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Benin, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Yemen. • December 25, 1991: With the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Sov...
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Jan 16, 2024 · This Chinese Revolution timeline lists significant events and developments from October 1949 (the formation of the People’s Republic) to 1961 (the end of the Great Leap Forward). This timeline has been written and compiled by Alpha History authors.
Jul 1, 2021 · 1921 Chinese Communist Party is established with Russian aid. The Communist Party’s first national congress is held in late July in Shanghai and Jiaxing. A Russian and a Dutch communist – both...
Jul 1, 2021 · Here are 10 defining moments from 100 years of the CCP. Students wave copies of Chairman Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book" in Beijing in June 1966. More than 40 years later, the opening ceremony of ...
