EVENT INFORMATION

1
Oktober
1949

People’s Republic of China is founded after revolution and civil war

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📅 1 Oktober 1949 📍 China

Mao Zedong announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing after Communist forces defeated the Nationalist government on the mainland. The new state emerged from a long revolution shaped partly by opposition to imperial encroachment and the Versailles settlement of Shandong, which had energized the May Fourth Movement. The civil war continued as the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan.

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People’s Republic of China

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