Second, the Yellow Sea War Time:1September, 894 17 (Sino-Japanese War) Main characters: Deng Shichang Process: Pyongyang fought fiercely, Li Hongzhang and others passively avoided the war, Pyongyang fell, Japan launched a fierce naval battle against Beiyang Navy, and Beiyang patriotic officers and men fought bravely, causing heavy casualties and retreating to Lushun Port. Deng Shichang was killed. Significance: It shows the determination of the Chinese nation to fight against the invaders.
III. Time of the Boxer Movement: 1900 May 27th (after the Sino-Japanese War) Main figures: Process of the Boxer Movement (group): After the Sino-Japanese War, imperialism set off a frenzy to carve up China, which grew rapidly with the support of the Qing government, with the slogan: Help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries, and then failed under the double encirclement and suppression of the Qing government and imperialism. Significance: It dealt a heavy blow to Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China and shattered the imperialist dream of dividing up China. It is the heroic performance of the Japanese people's struggle against aggression and oppression after the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and it shows the indomitable spirit of the Japanese people. But it also highlights the limitations of the peasant uprising.
Fourth, the main figures of the Revolution of 1911: Sun Yat-sen Time:1910 June 1 6 Wuchang Uprising started the first shot of armed resistance. Sun Yat-sen was appointed interim president, and Yuan Shikai was appointed interim president of Beijing. Significance: A great bourgeois-democratic revolution in the history of China overthrew the feudal imperial power system for more than 2,000 years, which completely overthrew the imperial system and established a new political system-* * * and system. However, the achievements of the Revolution of 1911 were stolen by Yuan Shikai, which did not change the fundamental reality of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.
Expand the significance of publicizing China people's anti-aggression war.
First, the anti-aggression war launched by the people of China in modern times has dealt a heavy blow to the imperialists' ambition to invade China and shattered their plot to carve up China and turn China into a complete colony.
Second, the anti-aggression war waged by the people of China in modern times has educated the people of China, inspired the national spirit of the Chinese nation, inspired the people's fighting spirit against imperialism and feudalism, and greatly improved the national awareness of the people of China.
The contradiction between foreign capitalism and the Chinese nation, feudalism and the people, and the former is the most important contradiction.
The two contradictions stipulate that the historical theme of modern China is to overthrow foreign capital-imperialism, get rid of the rule and oppression of feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, and strive for national liberation, national prosperity, social progress and people's happiness.
In other words, the fundamental task of modern China was to thoroughly oppose imperialism and feudalism, realize national modernization and change the semi-colonial and semi-feudal social nature of modern China.
1842, the Qing government was defeated in the Opium War and was forced to sign the Sino-British treaty of nanking. The Opium War transformed China from a feudal society into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, which was the beginning of modern China history.
The founding of New China marked the great victory of China's new-democratic revolution, ending the history of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and the modern history of China.