1. Put these events into the correct order, with the correct dates:

- Pu Yi abdicates

- Cixi dies

- Army rebels against Yuan

- Yuan rules as adictator

- Pu Yi becomes emperor

2. What problems did the Manchu Dynasty have in ruling China?

3. When did Cixi rule and was she an effective ruler?

4. What problems did the peasants face?

5. Why was China NOT industrialised (i.e. why did it not have many factories)?

6. What were the aims of the Boxers?

7. What did Sun Yatsen see foreigners doing in Hong Kong?

8. What was Sun Yatsen attempting to do?

9. Why did revolution breakout in 1911?

10. What do you think Yuan Shikai was hoping to gain by betraying the Manchus?

11. How did Yuan Shikai become leader of China and not Sun Yatsen?

12. What do you think the Cinese hated about Japan’s ‘Twenty-one Demands’?

13. Who opposed Yuan Shikai and why?

14. What problems did the warlords cause for ordinary Chinese people?

15. How was Sun Yatsen trying to achieve his aim of uniting China under his leadership?

16. What was the ‘Northern Expedition’?

17. In what way was the ‘Shanghai Massacre’ of 1927 a ‘turning point’?

18. What was the ‘Second Northern Expedition’?

19. What problems did Chiang face with the Second Northern Expedition and who did he make an alliance with?

20. What was the new threat by 1930?