1683 China's Ching Dynasty begins to develop Taiwan.
1874 Ching Dynasty wards off Japanese invasion.
1884 Ching Dynasty wards off French invasion.
1885 Taiwan becomes province of China.
1891 China builds section of Taiwan's first railroad.
1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan after losing Sino-Japanese War.
1911 (Oct. 10) Sun Yat-sen leads overthrow of Ching Dynasty and creation of Republic
Of China (ROC).
1928 Chiang Kai-shek unifies Republic of China; Taiwan remains under Japan.
1931 Japan invades northeastern China.
1935 Chiang Kai-shek defeats Communist Party army.
1937 China declares war on Japan.
1945 Republic of China becomes one of five permanent members of new U. N. Security
Council.
1945 After defeat in World War II, Japan returns Taiwan to China.
1946 Civil war breaks out in China.
Cies was to recover Taiwan from Japan, but the new government lacked the power. Instead Japan continued to invade China, which had many warlords, who controlled both small and large territories and whose allegiance to the central government existed only in words. In 1926 Chiang Kai-shek led the Northern Expedition against the warlords. By 1928 he had unified the Republic of China.
Neither Japan nor Russia wanted to see China become unified and powerful. Japan made unreasonable demands of China. In 1931 Japan's army invaded and occupied the northeastern part of China known as Manchuria. The following year the Japanese established a puppet government there. Civil war divided China, draining its power to resist Japan.
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