Dates Flashcards

1
Q

Treaty of Nanjing (loss of Hong Kong)

A

1842

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2
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Treaty of Tianjin

A

1858-60

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3
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Convention of Peking

A

1860

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4
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Jiangnan Arsenal

A

1865

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5
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Fuzhou Shipyard

A

1868

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6
Q

Tianjin Massacre

A

1870

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7
Q

The Opium War

A

1839-42

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8
Q

Second Anglo-Chinese War

A

1856-60

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9
Q

First Sino-Japanese War

A

1894-95

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10
Q

Treaty of Shimonoseki

A

1895

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11
Q

The Triple Intervention

A

1895

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12
Q

Failed coup by Sun Yatsen and Tongmenghui

A

1895

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13
Q

First modern bank in China

A

1897

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14
Q

Hundred Days’ Reform

A

1898 (June-September)

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15
Q

Cixi’s Reactionary Coup

A

1898 (Immediately after 100 days reform)

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16
Q

The Boxer Rebellion

A

1898-1900

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17
Q

Japan opens up Korea for trade

A

1876

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18
Q

Pro-Japanese Revolution in Korea

A

1894

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19
Q

Fall of Qing Dynasty

A

1911

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20
Q

Wuchang Uprising

A

10/10/1911

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21
Q

Sun Yatsen and Alliance League invited to rule

A

November 1911

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22
Q

Treaty of Versailles

A

1919

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23
Q

First Congress of CCP (Chinese Communist Party)

A

1921 (July)

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24
Q

First United Front (GMD-CCP Alliance)

A

1924

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25
Q

Death of Sun Yatsen

A

1925

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26
Q

Chiang Kai-Shek rises to power

A

1926

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27
Q

Northern Expedition

A

1926

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28
Q

White Terror

A

1927

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29
Q

Jiangxi Soviet

A

1927

30
Q

Manchurian Crisis

A

1931

31
Q

CCP Long March to Yanan

A

1934-35

32
Q

Mao Zedong elected chair of CCP Politburo

A

1935

33
Q

Second Sino-Japanese War

A

1937

34
Q

Rape of Nanjin

A

December 1937

35
Q

GMD-CCP Troop Conflict

A

1939

36
Q

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

A

1941

37
Q

Japanese surrender (Hiroshima bombing)

A

1945

38
Q

Chinese Civil War

A

1945-49

39
Q

Soviet Demands to China

A

1958

40
Q

Great Leap Forward

A

1958-62

41
Q

Khruschev’s Secret Speech

A

1956

42
Q

Great Famine

A

1959-62

43
Q

USSR withdrawal of economic support

A

1960

44
Q

Sino-Albanian alliance

A

1961

45
Q

Sino-Indian war

A

1962

46
Q

Cuban Missile Crisis

A

1962

47
Q

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

A

1963

48
Q

Malinovsky Affair

A

1964

49
Q

Start of Cultural Revolution

A

1966

50
Q

USSR and China recall ambassadors

A

1967

51
Q

Brezhnev Doctrine

A

1968

52
Q

Military confrontations

A

1969

53
Q

Emergence of Deng Xiaoping and his Four Modernisations

A

1978

54
Q

Deng visits USA to normalise relations with USA

A

1979

55
Q

Sino-Vietnam War

A

1979

56
Q

Abandonment of agricultural communes

A

1979

57
Q

PRC joins World Bank and IMF

A

1980

58
Q

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

A

1984

59
Q

Tiananmen Square protest massacre

A

1989

60
Q

China ‘most favoured nation’ status with USA

A

1991

61
Q

Hong Kong reverts to Chinese control

A

1997

62
Q

Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship

A

1978

63
Q

Patten introduces democracy to Hong Kong

A

Early 1990s

64
Q

China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company

A

1872

65
Q

China Submarine Telegraph Company

A

1869

66
Q

First commercial airline in China

A

1929

67
Q

Shanghai Commercial Association

A

1919

68
Q

Agrarian Land Reform

A

1950

69
Q

Shenzen opened as a Special Economic Zone

A

1992

70
Q

TV Soong’s simplified tax system

A

1920s