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The May Fourth Movement of 1919 was a direct response to the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred German concessions in China to Japan rather than returning them to Chinese control.

Following the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek rose to power within the Kuomintang (Goumingdang) and eventually led the Northern Expedition to unify China.

The Three Principles of the People (Nationalism, Democracy, and Livelihood) were the political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen as the foundation for the Republic of China.

The Comintern (Communist International) was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin to promote world revolution.

The CCP stands for Chinese Communist Party whose rule estabilished that single party will rule the country in which the supreme leaders or chairman became powerfull. 

Historical records of the land reform movement in China during the early 1950s indicate that approximately 60 percent of the rural population received redistributed land.

Unlike orthodox Marxism, which focused on the urban proletariat, Mao Zedong adapted revolutionary theory to the Chinese context by focusing on the peasantry as the primary revolutionary force.

After losing the Chinese Civil War to the Communists in 1949, the Kuomintang (Goumindang) government retreated to the island of Taiwan.

The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army, lasting from 1934 to 1935.

The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai in July 1921.