Chinese Nationalist Revolution Comic
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- The first major embarrassment to the Chinese Population was the defeat in the Opium Wars, which lead to higher western influence from imperialism.
- The second major embarrassment to the Chinese population was the failure in the Sino-Japanese War.
- Sun Yat-Sen was a Chinese intellectual who believed that China was in an undesirable state and needed to be free of foreign influence.
- On Oct 9, 1911, revolutionaries accidentally caused a large explosion whilst making bombs, leading to more government awareness of the revolutionaries, causing the revolutionaries to start a revolution. The revolutionaries seized Nanjing.
- Sun Yat-Sen was elected president of the Chinese Republic on December 29, and again and on January 1, 1912.
- The Three Principles of the People as defined by Sun Yat-Sen were Nationalism—an end to foreign controlPeople’s rights—democracy, andPeople’s livelihood— economic security for all Chinese.
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