Important historical events in China's modern history.

1840 (20 years of Daoguang), the British government decided to send an expeditionary force to invade China on the pretext that Lin Zexu and Humen destroyed opium. In June, 1840, 47 British ships with 4,000 troops, led by Major General george elliot and Charles Elliot, commercial director of China, arrived outside the Pearl River Estuary in Guangdong, blocked the Haikou, and the Opium War began.

The Opium War ended with China's failure and reparations. China and Britain signed the treaty of nanking, the first unequal treaty in China's history.

China began to cede territory, pay reparations and negotiate tariffs to foreign countries, which seriously endangered China's sovereignty, became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, lost its independent status and promoted the disintegration of the natural economy. At the same time, the Opium War also opened a new chapter in the history of modern China people's resistance to foreign aggression.

2. Sino-Japanese War

The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (Japanese War, Korean Peninsula War, Sino-Japanese War/First Sino-Japanese War) was a war of Japanese aggression against China and Korea at the end of 19. According to China's calendar, 1894, the time when the war broke out was the Sino-Japanese War, so it was called the Sino-Japanese War.

The result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 brought unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China society. On the other hand, it has made Japan's national strength stronger and laid an important foundation for it to become a big country.

3. Wuchang Uprising

Wuchang Uprising, also known as the Shouyi of Xinhai and the Shouyi of Wuhan, refers to the mutiny that overthrew the Qing Dynasty in Wuchang, Hubei Province on June 20 1 1 9 (1910), and it was also the beginning of the Revolution of 1911.

4. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression for short) refers to an all-out national war in which China resisted Japanese aggression during the Second World War in the middle of the 20th century.

Internationally known as the Second Sino-Japanese War? Japanese war of aggression against China. The Anti-Japanese War lasted for 14 years from the September 18th Incident of 193 1 to the end of 1945.

5. War of Liberation

The war of liberation is also called "the third revolutionary civil war", and the Kuomintang calls it "mobilizing to suppress chaos". It was the second stage of the civil war waged by the China People's Liberation Army under the leadership of China's Communist Party from August 1945 to September/949.

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