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| Question | Answer |
| 1912 | Abdication of last Qing emperor |
| 1917 | China enters WW1, joing Britain, France, USA aand Russia |
| 4th May 1919 | Protest against decision to hand Germany's possessions in China to Japan |
| 1921 | Communist Party of China established |
| 1927 | Communists in Shanghai massacred by nationalist forces |
| 1945 | Peace talks |
| October 1945 | Mao and Chiang agree to peace but fighting intensifies |
| January 1946 | Ceasefire agreed o with USA intervention |
| July 1946 | Ceasefire breaks down. Civil War begins |
| January 1949 | Communists capture Beijing |
| November 1948 | Communist forces capture Manchuria |
| October 1949 | Communists defeat Nationalists People's Republic of China is established |
| 1950 | Start of Korean war |
| 1950 | Marriage laws give women more rights |
| 1957 | Hundred Flowers campaign |
| 1958 | Start of the Great Leap Forward |
| 1959 | Peng Dehuai purged |
| 1962 | Third five year plan for industry |
| 1962 | Power struggle between Mao, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping Little Red Book launched |
| 1963 | Socialist education movement launched |
| 1964 | China's first atomic bomb successfully tested |
| 1966 | Cultural Revolution begins |
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