CHINA COLD WAR TIMELINE 1921 1927-1949 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established Chinese civil war 1947 1949 1949 Pakistan becomes independent of India China becomes communist Nationalists in China flee to Taiwan and form Republic Of China (ROC) 1950 1950 1950 1950-1953 1954 1959 1959 1959 Mao to Moscow for Friendship Treaty China invades Tibet USA send fleet to straits between mainland China and Taiwan to protect ROC Korean War China and India establish trade agreement Dalai Lama flees to India to set up Tibetan government China withdraws from China-India Trade Agreement (1954) China and Pakistan become allies 1960 1962 1964 1965-1975 1967 1968 1969 Russia aid to China stops China India border dispute China builds first atomic bomb Vietnam War China builds its first hydrogen bomb Brezhnev Doctrine US, China trade restrictions lifted 1971 1972 1975 1975-1979 1976 1976 1978 1979 1979 Nixon allows entry of China into UN Security Council Nixon visits Beijing Communists in Vietnam (North) win the Vietnam War Khmer Rouge genocide after victory in the Cambodia Civil War Ford visits China Mao dies Xing Xiaoping Ping took over CPC and made Chinese economic policy reforms Vietnamese troops overthrow Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia (Feb-March) China invades Vietnam in retaliation for Cambodia overthrow (Sino-Vietnamese War) and as a border war. Both sides claimed victory. 1989 1989 Collapse of USSR Tiananmen Square 2006 2008 2008 BRIC founding members bring China and India closer together again India is China’s largest trade partner China and Tibet establish good international relations CUBAN MISSILE TIMELINE (16 Oct - 28 Oct 1962) 1950s 1959 1961 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 Cuban background - subservient to US, sugar export, 40% illiterate, 2% owned 50% of land, Batista puppet January 1959 - Fidel Castro revolution; Batista out. April 1961 - Bay Of Pigs September 1962 - US spy plane photographs missile installations in Cuba 22 October 1962 - Kennedy announces discovery of missiles in Cuba; Strategies = Nothing, Negotiate, Invade, Block, Bomb; Nuke 23-24 October 1962 - Khrushchev sent letter to Kennedy claiming peaceful intentions in Cuba 26 October 1962 - USSR offers to withdraw missiles for Cuban Independence 27 October 1962 - Khrushchev calls removal of missiles from Turkey; Kennedy first deal (Cuban safety) accepted publicly and second deal privately (Turkey). 28 October 1962 - Kennedy announcement that he had ordered removal of missiles in Cuba 30 November 1962 - End of blockade of Cuba BASE COLD WAR TIMELINE 1945 1945 1945 1945 1945 1945 1946 1947 1947 1948 1948 1948-1961 1949 1949 February 1945 - Yalta Conference - ‘Big Three’ post-war plans - Crimea April 1945 - Roosevelt dies (Harry Truman) May 1945 - Germany surrenders June 1945 - UN formed July 1945 - POTSDAM - allied leaders split Germany August 1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed March 1946 - Iron Curtain Speech Churchill March 1947 - Truman doctrine - containment of communism Czechoslovakia fell to communism April 1948 - Marshal Plan - economic aid to Europe; $13B; Containment June 1948 - Berlin Blockage Berlin Crises: 1st - 1948 to 1949 (blockade and airlift); 3rd - 1958 (ultimatums); 4th - 1961 (war) April 1949 - NATO formed May 1949 - Berlin Airlift 1953 1955 1955 1958 June 1953 - Berlin Riots May 1955 - Warsaw Pact - USSR satellite states West Germany admitted to NATO November 1958 - Krushchev’s demands 1961 August 1961 - Berlin wall built - destroyed 1989 1989 Removal of Berlin Wall JOINT TIMELINE (China, Coldwar Base, Cuba) 1921 1927-1949 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established Chinese civil war 1945 1945 1945 1945 1945 1945 1946 1947 1947 1947 1948-1961 February 1945 - Yalta Conference - ‘Big Three’ post-war plans - Crimea April 1945 - Roosevelt dies (Harry Truman) May 1945 - Germany surrenders June 1945 - UN formed July 1945 - POTSDAM - allied leaders split Germany August 1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed March 1946 - Iron Curtain Speech Churchill March 1947 - Truman doctrine - containment of communism Czechoslovakia fell to communism Pakistan becomes independent of India Berlin Crises: 1st - 1948 to 1949 (blockade and airlift); 3rd - 1958 (ultimatums); 4th - 1961 (war) April 1948 - Marshal Plan - economic aid to Europe; $13B; Containment June 1948 - Berlin Blockage April 1949 - NATO formed May 1949 - Berlin Airlift China becomes communist Nationalists in China flee to Taiwan and form Republic Of China (ROC) 1948 1948 1949 1949 1949 1949 1950 1950 1950 1950-1953 1950s 1953 Mao to Moscow for Friendship Treaty China invades Tibet USA send fleet to straits between mainland China and Taiwan to protect ROC Korean War Cuban background - subservient to US, sugar export, 40% illiterate, 2% owned 50% of land, Batista puppet June 1953 - Berlin Riots 1954 1955 1955 1958 1959 1959 1959 1959 China and India establish trade agreement May 1955 - Warsaw Pact - USSR satellite states West Germany admitted to NATO November 1958 - Krushchev’s demands Dalai Lama flees to India to set up Tibetan government China withdraws from China-India Trade Agreement (1954) China and Pakistan become allies January 1959 - Fidel Castro revolution; Batista out 1960 1961 1961 Russia aid to China stops August 1961 - Berlin wall built - destroyed 1989 April 1961 - Bay Of Pigs 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1962 1964 1965-1975 1967 1968 1969 China India border dispute September 1962 - US spy plane photographs missile installations in Cuba 22 October 1962 - Kennedy announces discovery of missiles in Cuba; Strategies = Nothing, Negotiate, Invade, Block, Bomb; Nuke 23-24 October 1962 - Khrushchev sent letter to Kennedy claiming peaceful intentions in Cuba 26 October 1962 - USSR offers to withdraw missiles for Cuban Independence 27 October 1962 - Khrushchev calls removal of missiles from Turkey; Kennedy first deal (Cuban safety) accepted publicly and second deal privately (Turkey). 28 October 1962 - Kennedy announcement that he had ordered removal of missiles in Cuba 30 November 1962 - End of blockade of Cuba China builds first atomic bomb Vietnam War China builds its first hydrogen bomb Brezhnev Doctrine US, China trade restrictions lifted 1971 1972 1975 1975-1979 1976 1976 1978 1979 1979 Nixon allows entry of China into UN Security Council Nixon visits Beijing Communists in Vietnam (North) win the Vietnam War Khmer Rouge genocide after victory in the Cambodia Civil War Ford visits China Mao dies Xing Xiaoping Ping took over CPC and made Chinese economic policy reforms Vietnamese troops overthrow Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia (Feb-March) China invades Vietnam in retaliation for Cambodia overthrow (Sino-Vietnamese War) and as a border war. Both sides claimed victory. 1989 1989 1989 Collapse of USSR Removal of Berlin Wall Tiananmen Square 2006 2008 2008 BRIC founding members bring China and India closer together again India is China’s largest trade partner China and Tibet establish good international relations
