Timeline #2

Question 1

Oct. 1945*

Answer 1

Moscow Confernce of Forgein Minsisters

Question 2

1947

Answer 2

Japan’s New constition

Question 3

Feb. 28, 1948

Answer 3

228 Incident / Tawain/ White Terror Campaign

Question 4

April 8, 1948*

Answer 4

President Truman orders WITHDRAWL OF US TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA

Question 5

1946 -1948

Answer 5

Tokyo War Crimes Trials

Question 6

1949

Answer 6

The people’s Liberation Army (PLA)

Question 7

Jan. 14, 1950*

Answer 7

Zhou Enlai Signs a SINO-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP TREATY in Moscow

Question 8

June 25, 1950*

Answer 8

Korean War

Question 9

Sep. - Oct. 1950*

Answer 9

Yalu River

Question 10

April 11, 1951*

Answer 10

President Truman relives Gen. MacArthur of Duty

Question 11

Oct. 1951*

Answer 11

PLA reasserts Chinese control over tibet

Question 12

1952*

Answer 12

land reform - 5 year plan

Question 13

July 27, 1953*

Answer 13

Korea armistice - Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

Question 14

1954*

Answer 14

Geneva Conference

Question 15

1957*

Answer 15

The Hundred Flowers Movement

Question 16

1958-60*

Answer 16

The Great Leap Foward

Question 17

August 23, 1958*

Answer 17

PRC bombardment of Quemoy

Question 18

May 1959

Answer 18

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 19

1960*

Answer 19

Sino-Soviet split

Question 20

Sept., 1960,

Answer 20

Le Duan as head of North Vietnam

Question 21

1961*

Answer 21

Liu Shaoqui (supported by Deng Xiaopipng) openely challenges Mao - Wu Han Writes and produces Hai Rui Dismissed From Office

Question 22

Sept., 1962*

Answer 22

Agent Orange

Question 23

May, 1963

Answer 23

“Buddhist Crisis”

Question 24

1963*

Answer 24

Socialist Education Campagin - Lei Feng - Quotations from Mao Zedong (aka ‘The Little Red Book’)

Question 25

1964

Answer 25

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 26

1965*

Answer 26

Yao Wenyuan (a member of the gang of four)

Question 27

1965*

Answer 27

Operation Rolling Thunder

Question 28

1966***

Answer 28

Great Proleterian Cultural Revolution

Question 29

April, 1967*

Answer 29

Vietnam War Protests

Question 30

1968

Answer 30

Tet Offensive

Question 31

1968*

Answer 31

Sent-down to the countryside for 're-education' by the peasants

Question 32

March 16, 1968*

Answer 32

My Lai - U.S massacre on more than 500 Civilians

Question 33

1969*

Answer 33

Hamburger Hill

Question 34

1969 - 1972**

Answer 34

Vietnamization

Question 35

1969 - 1970

Answer 35

"Operation Menu"

Question 36

June, 1970

Answer 36

Repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 37

1971***

Answer 37

'Ping-pong diplomacy'

Question 38

March - October, 1972

Answer 38

Easter Offensive

Question 39

1972*

Answer 39

US President Ricahard nixon conducts a state visit to china - *"One China Policy" important dipolmatic document called Shanghai Communique*

Question 40

January, 1973*

Answer 40

Paris Peace Accords

Question 41

Feb. - April, 1973*

Answer 41

Operation Homecoming

Question 42

April, 1975*

Answer 42

Fall of Saigon

Question 43

1976***

Answer 43

Zhou Enlai dies - Tiananmen Incident - Mao Zedong dies - Gang of Four are arrested

Question 44

1978*

Answer 44

Deng Xiaoping purses the Four Modernizations - 'Democracy Wall'

Question 45

1978*

Answer 45

Deng Xiaoping purses the Four Modernizations - 'Democracy Wall'

Question 46

1979*

Answer 46

Chinas's New "open door Polices

Question 47

1980 - 81***

Answer 47

Gang of Four are tried and Convicted

Question 48

1982*

Answer 48

'Socialism with Chinese characteristics'

Question 49

1984

Answer 49

Sino-British Joint Declaration

Question 50

1986*

Answer 50

Democracy Movement

Question 51

1987*

Answer 51

Hu Yaobang is blamed by Deng Xiaoping for political unrest and removed from office

Question 52

1989***

Answer 52

Tiananmen Square - "Tiananmen Square Incident"

Question 53

1990*

Answer 53

White Lily Movement - Hong Kong Basic Law - Special Administrative Region (SAR)

Question 54

1992*

Answer 54

"1992 Consensus" - Deng Xiaoping's Souther Tour

Question 55

1994*

Answer 55

Three-Gorges Dam

Question 56

1995*

Answer 56

Third Taiwan Strait Crisis

Question 57

1997*

Answer 57

The Handover

Question 58

2000*

Answer 58

First peaceful transfer of power

Question 59

2001*

Answer 59

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Question 60

2007

Answer 60

Urban land use law

Question 61

2008*

Answer 61

Wenchuan EarthQuake - Beijing Olympics opening ceremony

Question 62

2011*

Answer 62

Fukushima nuclear accident

Question 63

2014*

Answer 63

Sunflower Movement

Question 64

2015*

Answer 64

Xi Jinping - Ma Ying-Jeou meet in Singapore