Warlord Era 196-27, Growth of CCP
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• Problems
• No real central government.
• Beijing split into factions.
• Japan issues 21 demands
• Intense nationalism results
• China dominated by warlords
• Pre 1920, dominated by those that had ruled under republicans
• Post 1920, shift to opportunists

Growth of CCP

• Causes
• Admired soviet model
• Touched by offer to give back all Tsarist territory -"Karakhan Manifesto"
• This promise later reneged upon
• Aided by soviet emissary from Comintern
• Organised Socialist Youth League
• Recruited young intellectuals
• 4th May Movement (date that treaty was announced in China)
• 1919 after Russian Revolution, and under Comintern influence, CCP formed. Decides to work together with CCP.
• Series of demonstrations against foreign intervention
• Reaction to Paris Peace conference. Shandong taken from German and given to Japan. CCP (founded 1921) works with GMD (1912) in United Front, in order to drive out foreigners and warlords.
• Nature
• Formed after peace treaty declared with Russian Help
• Members had studies socialism in
• Japan
• France
• Had learned much in socialist workers league

Position of Nationalists

• Dogged by infighting
• All this was the foreign imperialism against which the KMT launched its attack after being reorganized along Bolshevist lines.
• Washington Conference (November 1921-February 1922),
• 8 powers agreed to help and respect china.
• Warlords
• tax subjects heavily.
• Drain money intended for education and government
• 1925 Japanese Shooting and Riots
• 1925 March Sun Yatsen dead.

Other Notes in this Category

1. 1898 Boxer Risings
2. 1911 Revolution
3. Causes of the Growth of Nationalism
4. Northern Expedition & White Terror 1923-7
5. Position before 1911
6. Situation Before 1900
7. Situation before 1911
8. Warlord Era 196-27, Growth of CCP
9. Yuan Shikai and Sun Yatsen

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