A Broken World

When the Qing Dynasty fell, it seems like a new world for the people in China. Because the Qing Dynasty was really long, longer than their life, when it ended, it was hard for them to get use to it. When it fell, Sun Yat Sen became the president, he said he did not want people to think him as a king which he didn’t want them to. He became the leader of the Kuomintang, or the nationalist party. When the people start to realize what was happened, he tried to make the people as one, which can help the country. It was successful in my opinion.

             Six weeks later, he gave his position to Yuan Shikai, who is a general who helped Sun to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and help him to get power. Because Yuan wasn’t a good leader, Sun became the president again, and fixed many things that Yuan had ruined in a way.

             Other event that really made me think was the Treaty of Versailles and what it brought to happen. The students at some place got really angry that Japan took their country’s land, East part of China, and tried to fight against the Japanese army, which wasn’t successful, but had influenced a lot in a way. It was called the May Fourth Movement.

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