Chinese Revolution
Communist takeover, 1949
The Chinese Revolution most often refers to the Communist revolution culminating in 1949, when Mao Zedong's forces defeated the Nationalists and established the People's Republic of China.
The term may also designate the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and ended imperial rule: The Chinese Revolution transformed the world's most populous nation.
- MaoChinese family name
- communismCollective ownership system
- People's RepublicCommunist state's formal name
- RedColor of blood
- red flagIndicator of danger
peasants · peasant uprising · 1949 · uprising · Tiananmen · cadre · propaganda · Long March · civil war · Chiang Kai-shek · nationalism · landlords · land reform · collectivization · struggle · Red Guards · famine · mass mobilization
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- Revolutionrevolt, uprising, insurrection, overthrow, revolutionaries
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Postwar AsiaKorean War, Vietnam War, Tiananmen Square, DMZ, 38th parallel
- Revolutionsoverthrow, uprising, revolt, insurrection, rebellions
- Red RevolutionsMao, Lenin, Bolsheviks, Red Guards, Red Army
Chinese Revolutionevolutionary change
Inherited trait shifts over generations
constitutional reform · Glorious Revolution · incrementalism · political stability · dynastic succession
Chinese, revolution, revolve, revolving, revolved, revolver, revolutionary, revolutionize, revolutionized