The Shanghai Massacre
Two refugees trying to escape along the Shanghai-Beijing railraod tracks.
- Before the Communist and Nationalist parties were founded, The Last Emperor, or Emperor Pu Yi, was still in control
- He slowly started to realize what was happening outside of the Forbidden City
- Once he fully realized it, he was kicked out of the thrown.
- That is when the two parties came about
- The Shanghai Massacre occurred in 1927
- It was also called The Sahnghai Anti-Communist Coup
- It was an Anti-Chinese Communist Party purge in Shanghai
- Prior to the incident, The Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party worked together on a northern expedition
- The goal of the northern expedition was to reunite much of southern China
- The Nationalists began to feel strong feelings of anti-communism
- They then thought of the Chinese Communists as a threat
- In April of 1926, troops from the northern expedition entered Shanghai
- Because of this, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a coup against the Communist forces
- Labour movements, Communists, and left-wing sympathises in the Nationalist Party were some of the first casualties
- More than 100 people died and many were wounded
- The Shanghai Massacre ended the First United Front
- The Chinese Communist Party were forced to go into hiding
- The Nationalist Party ended up unifying all of China