- Presidency of Yuan Shikai, 21 Demands 1915
- New Culture Movement
- Warlordism
- May Fourth Movement
- Founding of the Chinese Communist Party 1921
- Re-organisation of the Guomindang
- First United Front 1924-7
- Chiang Kaishek and the Northern Expedition
- Nanjing Decade of the Nationalist Government
- Mao: Jiangxi Soviet, Long March, Yan’an communist base
- Xi'an incident 1936
- Second United Front against the Japanese 1936-1945
- Japanese Occupation & Nanjing Massacre
- Chinese Civil War 1946-1949
- Reasons for the CCP victory in 1949