A warlord is a leader able to exercise military, economic and political control over a territory within a sovereign state due to loyal armed forces
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When was there War lordism?
1916-1925
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What was the Northern Expedition of 1926?
Nationalist Armies, led by Kai-Shek, marched north with their communist allies from Guangzhou in a drive to defeat the warlords.
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What did Chiang do?
Purged the communists
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What was the Najing Decade and when was it?
1927-1937,it was a period of stable government in China. China was reunified and most of the nation was governed by Jiang Jieshi and the Guomindang
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What were the 3 major war lord factions?
Anhui Clique, Zhili Clique and Fengtian Clique
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Who was Anhui Clique lead by?
Duan Qirui
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Who was the Zhili Clique led by?
Guozhangg, Peifu and Yuxiang
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Fengtian Clique
Zuolin
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Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
A military and political leader who led the Chinese national party for five decades and was head of state of the Chinese Nationalist Government between 1928 and 1949
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What weakened the nationalist party?
GMD was divided internally. Chiang held power through control of military but under pressure from Hu Hanming and the Wang Jingwei, also pressure from Warlords
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Chiang was forced to work with who?
Local elites, particularly in Shanghai, but Nationalists had more power than Beiyang Govt
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What did Chiang's Government deal with?
Great depressiona and foreign threats, particularly the nationalists
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Who was Yuesheng?
Chinese Mob boss who spent much of his life in Shanghai.
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Who did he support?
He was a key supporter of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang in their battle against the Communists in the 1920s
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What did the Nationalist party continue to do?
Militarisation of politics, emerging from legacy of late imperial and wartime perio
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Chiang's power base in the army, and New life movement had what?
militaristic element, and has eve been described as fascist.
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Attempt to create what?
Modern nation state, based loosely on the ideas of Sun Yatsen.
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Nationalists tried to implement many changes in Chinese Society, what did they introduce?
New calenders, support of industrial development, urbanisation, rural reconstruction
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What did the Nationalists achieve?
MEasure of control and unity, and created a modern national state, by this time Chinese politics well and truly militarised which only increased with continuing internal threats and Japanese Incursion
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Warlordism, Definition?
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A warlord is a leader able to exercise military, economic and political control over a territory within a sovereign state due to loyal armed forces
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