karena munroe's List: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

• China collided with imperial edicts prohibiting the addictive drug, and the First Opium War erupted in 1840. Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1842 under the Treaty of Nanjing.
• British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops,

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• In the 1920s, Sun Yat-Sen established a revolutionary base in south China, and set out to unite the fragmented nation.
• one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石，蒋介石), seized
• Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), which became a part of World War II.

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