| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Dynasty ruling China from the 1600s | Qing | 96%
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| Rising Asian power | Japan | 87%
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| Two regions sought after by this nation | Manchuria | 75%
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| Inferior CCP member whose plan was taken instead | Mao Zedong | 72%
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| Where did the Kuomintang flee to | Taiwan | 69%
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| Year beginning the Japanese invasion | 1937 | 66%
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| Year where Japan annexed Manchuria | 1931 | 64%
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| City where the massacres began | Shanghai | 63%
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| Shanghai | 63%
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| Who forcibly replaced him? | Chiang Kai-Shek | 62%
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| Exiled revolutionary | Sun Yat-Sen | 62%
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| 2-year-old emperor crowned | Pu-Yi | 60%
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| Nation claiming that Taiwan is one of its provinces, hence other countries do too | China | 59%
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| Place where delegates of the rebelling provinces gathered | Nanjing | 59%
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| Cities conquered in April | Nanjing | 59%
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| What is it officially known as (even today) | Republic of China | 59%
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| Korea | 58%
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| Year of his coronation | 1908 | 57%
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| Year of this | 1911 | 57%
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| Which year did this begin | 1934 | 56%
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| Political party formed by Yat-Sen as a result of his poor leadership | Kuomintang | 56%
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| In which city were mass protests held | Beijing | 55%
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| Violently put down peasant uprising, 1900 | Boxer Rebellion | 52%
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| War where they defeated China | First Sino-Japanese War | 52%
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| Year of his ascension | 1912 | 51%
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| Legendary evacuation by the depleted Communists | The Long March | 51%
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| 1895 | 50%
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| Yat-Sen, then the president, died in ... | 1925 | 50%
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| Year of this | 1927 | 50%
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| Using ... tactics | Guerrilla | 50%
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| Who invaded Manchuria | USSR | 50%
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| Start and end years of the war | 1894 | 49%
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| What type of communist was he | Chinese | 46%
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| Event begun by Mao in to modernize the nation | Great Leap Forward | 46%
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| Wars causing instability in the nation | Opium Wars | 46%
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| Another event where up to 20 million people died (began 1966) | Cultural Revolution | 45%
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| Which war did this begin | Second Sino-Japanese War | 45%
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| Year of this | 1922 | 44%
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| Year when was Chiang cut off from supplying his troops | 1948 | 43%
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| What did the president declare himself as in 1916 | Emperor | 43%
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| What percent of people did they arrive with | 10 | 42%
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| Until when did it represent 'China' in the UN before the PRC replaced it | 1971 | 42%
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| China was then known as the ... | People's Republic of China | 40%
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| China began to be controlled by | Warlords | 38%
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| The CCP were able to get ... land than they had before | More | 37%
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| Which province was their destination | Shanxi | 37%
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| Name of this alliance | United Front | 35%
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| In January 1949, Beijing and which other city fell to the CCP | Tianjin | 34%
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| English translation of this party | Nationalist party | 33%
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| General of the Qing army | Yuan Shikai | 33%
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| Defeat in Manchuria came in which month? | March | 32%
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| Guangzhou | 31%
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| Party that they formed an alliance with | Chinese Communist Party | 30%
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| Alliance proposed by Mao to fight against the Japanese | Second United Front | 30%
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| Chiang still kept some ... in the north | Troops | 29%
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| Chiang had his generals ... after they made him agree | Executed | 28%
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| Event caused by this, killing 20-75 million people | Great Famine | 28%
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| 1919 treaty outraging the Chinese | Treaty of Versailles | 27%
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| Coalition that defeated this | Eight-Nation alliance | 24%
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| The US army claimed to be ... | Neutral | 24%
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| The US then intervened and wanted ... | Peace | 24%
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| Name of the major uprising | Wuchang uprising | 23%
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| Chiang then wanted to let the ... fight for him | Americans | 22%
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| Name of Communist persecution began by him | White Terror | 22%
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| What was offered to him so that he would switch sides | Presidency | 21%
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| Date when Mao declared victory | 1 October 1949 | 20%
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| Date when Japan declared war on the US | 8 December 1941 | 20%
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| This involved turning villages into ... | Bases | 20%
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| Yat-Sen was to be president of the ... | Chinese Republic | 20%
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| Month (and year) that Chiang was kidnapped by his generals | December 1936 | 20%
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| The president once again ... Yat-Sen | Exiled | 20%
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| However, it had transported Chiang's army on ... | Ships | 18%
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| Soviet organization which began advising the former | Cominform | 17%
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| After the Japanese left in 1945, a huge ... began | Land grab | 17%
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| What type of communist was he | Traditional | 17%
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| Mao left Cominform as he believed Soviets were not ... | True communists | 17%
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| The vacancy of Manchuria ... the negotiations | Ended | 16%
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| He was known as the ... | Founder of the nation | 16%
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| What Chinese land did this give to the Japanese | German colonies | 16%
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| So the Kuomintang lost much ... | Ground | 15%
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| Month (and year) where peace talks broke down | July 1946 | 15%
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| Who was Li replaced by (by the Soviets) | 28 Bolsheviks | 14%
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| And then resorting to ... once they were on a level playing field | Conventional war | 14%
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| Month (and year) by which the CCP had been pushed back | December 1945 | 14%
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| Month (and year) of Mao's election to the leader of the CCP | January 1935 | 14%
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| What did they hand over to the CCP | Japanese stockpiles | 14%
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| Leader of the CCP | Li Lisan | 14%
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| The nationalist party declared a ... | Military government | 14%
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| US Ambassador attempting to reconcile the CCP and Kuomintang | Patrick Hurley | 14%
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| This gave the CCP time to ... | Recuperate | 14%
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| What did he die of in the same year | Uraemia | 14%
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| River that caused 50% of forces to be lost | Xiang river | 14%
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| Mao's Guerrilla tactics were ... the Kuomintang | Bleeding dry | 13%
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| Mao then formulated his ... | Revolutionary plan | 13%
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