Timeline #2 Flashcards
Oct. 1945*
Moscow Confernce of Forgein Minsisters
1947
Japan’s New constition
Feb. 28, 1948
228 Incident / Tawain/ White Terror Campaign
April 8, 1948*
President Truman orders WITHDRAWL OF US TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA
1946 -1948
Tokyo War Crimes Trials
1949
The people’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Jan. 14, 1950*
Zhou Enlai Signs a SINO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP TREATY in Moscow
June 25, 1950*
Korean War
Sep. - Oct. 1950*
Yalu River
April 11, 1951*
President Truman relives Gen. MacArthur of Duty
Oct. 1951*
PLA reasserts Chinese control over tibet
1952*
land reform - 5 year plan
July 27, 1953*
Korea armistice - Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
1954*
Geneva Conference
1957*
The Hundred Flowers Movement
1958-60*
The Great Leap Foward
August 23, 1958*
PRC bombardment of Quemoy
May 1959
Ho Chi Minh Trail
1960*
Sino-Soviet split
Sept., 1960,
Le Duan as head of North Vietnam
1961*
Liu Shaoqui (supported by Deng Xiaopipng) openely challenges Mao - Wu Han Writes and produces Hai Rui Dismissed From Office
Sept., 1962*
Agent Orange
May, 1963
“Buddhist Crisis”
1963*
Socialist Education Campagin - Lei Feng - Quotations from Mao Zedong (aka ‘The Little Red Book’)
1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1965*
Yao Wenyuan (a member of the gang of four)
1965*
Operation Rolling Thunder
1966***
Great Proleterian Cultural Revolution
April, 1967*
Vietnam War Protests
1968
Tet Offensive
1968*
Sent-down to the countryside for ‘re-education’ by the peasants
March 16, 1968*
My Lai - U.S massacre on more than 500 Civilians
1969*
Hamburger Hill
1969 - 1972**
Vietnamization
1969 - 1970
“Operation Menu”
June, 1970
Repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1971***
‘Ping-pong diplomacy’
March - October, 1972
Easter Offensive
1972*
US President Ricahard nixon conducts a state visit to china - “One China Policy” important dipolmatic document called Shanghai Communique
January, 1973*
Paris Peace Accords
Feb. - April, 1973*
Operation Homecoming
April, 1975*
Fall of Saigon
1976***
Zhou Enlai dies - Tiananmen Incident - Mao Zedong dies - Gang of Four are arrested
1978*
Deng Xiaoping purses the Four Modernizations - ‘Democracy Wall’
1978*
Deng Xiaoping purses the Four Modernizations - ‘Democracy Wall’
1979*
Chinas’s New “open door Polices
1980 - 81***
Gang of Four are tried and Convicted
1982*
‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’
1984
Sino-British Joint Declaration
1986*
Democracy Movement
1987*
Hu Yaobang is blamed by Deng Xiaoping for political unrest and removed from office
1989***
Tiananmen Square - “Tiananmen Square Incident”
1990*
White Lily Movement - Hong Kong Basic Law - Special Administrative Region (SAR)
1992*
“1992 Consensus” - Deng Xiaoping’s Souther Tour
1994*
Three-Gorges Dam
1995*
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
1997*
The Handover
2000*
First peaceful transfer of power
2001*
World Trade Organization (WTO)
2007
Urban land use law
2008*
Wenchuan EarthQuake - Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
2011*
Fukushima nuclear accident
2014*
Sunflower Movement
2015*
Xi Jinping - Ma Ying-Jeou meet in Singapore