Dates

Question 1

Treaty of Nanjing (loss of Hong Kong)

Answer 1

1842

Question 2

Treaty of Tianjin

Answer 2

1858-60

Question 3

Convention of Peking

Answer 3

1860

Question 4

Jiangnan Arsenal

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

Fuzhou Shipyard

Answer 5

1868

Question 6

Tianjin Massacre

Answer 6

1870

Question 7

The Opium War

Answer 7

1839-42

Question 8

Second Anglo-Chinese War

Answer 8

1856-60

Question 9

First Sino-Japanese War

Answer 9

1894-95

Question 10

Treaty of Shimonoseki

Answer 10

1895

Question 11

The Triple Intervention

Answer 11

1895

Question 12

Failed coup by Sun Yatsen and Tongmenghui

Answer 12

1895

Question 13

First modern bank in China

Answer 13

1897

Question 14

Hundred Days’ Reform

Answer 14

1898 (June-September)

Question 15

Cixi’s Reactionary Coup

Answer 15

1898 (Immediately after 100 days reform)

Question 16

The Boxer Rebellion

Answer 16

1898-1900

Question 17

Japan opens up Korea for trade

Answer 17

1876

Question 18

Pro-Japanese Revolution in Korea

Answer 18

1894

Question 19

Fall of Qing Dynasty

Answer 19

1911

Question 20

Wuchang Uprising

Answer 20

10/10/1911

Question 21

Sun Yatsen and Alliance League invited to rule

Answer 21

November 1911

Question 22

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 22

1919

Question 23

First Congress of CCP (Chinese Communist Party)

Answer 23

1921 (July)

Question 24

First United Front (GMD-CCP Alliance)

Answer 24

1924

Question 25

Death of Sun Yatsen

Answer 25

1925

Question 26

Chiang Kai-Shek rises to power

Answer 26

1926

Question 27

Northern Expedition

Answer 27

1926

Question 28

White Terror

Answer 28

1927

Question 29

Jiangxi Soviet

Answer 29

1927

Question 30

Manchurian Crisis

Answer 30

1931

Question 31

CCP Long March to Yanan

Answer 31

1934-35

Question 32

Mao Zedong elected chair of CCP Politburo

Answer 32

1935

Question 33

Second Sino-Japanese War

Answer 33

1937

Question 34

Rape of Nanjin

Answer 34

December 1937

Question 35

GMD-CCP Troop Conflict

Answer 35

1939

Question 36

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

Answer 36

1941

Question 37

Japanese surrender (Hiroshima bombing)

Answer 37

1945

Question 38

Chinese Civil War

Answer 38

1945-49

Question 39

Soviet Demands to China

Answer 39

1958

Question 40

Great Leap Forward

Answer 40

1958-62

Question 41

Khruschev’s Secret Speech

Answer 41

1956

Question 42

Great Famine

Answer 42

1959-62

Question 43

USSR withdrawal of economic support

Answer 43

1960

Question 44

Sino-Albanian alliance

Answer 44

1961

Question 45

Sino-Indian war

Answer 45

1962

Question 46

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 46

1962

Question 47

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Answer 47

1963

Question 48

Malinovsky Affair

Answer 48

1964

Question 49

Start of Cultural Revolution

Answer 49

1966

Question 50

USSR and China recall ambassadors

Answer 50

1967

Question 51

Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 51

1968

Question 52

Military confrontations

Answer 52

1969

Question 53

Emergence of Deng Xiaoping and his Four Modernisations

Answer 53

1978

Question 54

Deng visits USA to normalise relations with USA

Answer 54

1979

Question 55

Sino-Vietnam War

Answer 55

1979

Question 56

Abandonment of agricultural communes

Answer 56

1979

Question 57

PRC joins World Bank and IMF

Answer 57

1980

Question 58

China and UK sign Join Declaration, agreeing Hong Kong will be handed back in 1997

Answer 58

1984

Question 59

Tiananmen Square protest massacre

Answer 59

1989

Question 60

China ‘most favoured nation’ status with USA

Answer 60

1991

Question 61

Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control

Answer 61

1997

Question 62

Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship

Answer 62

1978

Question 63

Patten introduces democracy to Hong Kong

Answer 63

Early 1990s

Question 64

China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company

Answer 64

1872

Question 65

China Submarine Telegraph Company

Answer 65

1869

Question 66

First commercial airline in China

Answer 66

1929

Question 67

Shanghai Commercial Association

Answer 67

1919

Question 68

Agrarian Land Reform

Answer 68

1950

Question 69

Shenzen opened as a Special Economic Zone

Answer 69

1992

Question 70

TV Soong’s simplified tax system

Answer 70

1920s