1945
Japan's defeat sparks civil war between communists & Nationalists .
1949
October
* Mao's Red & proclaims the Republic of China (prev (CP)
Army marches into
Beijing People's
* KMT goes to Taiwan (2 million ppl)
1950
Mao visits Moscow ; China B USSR sign Treaty of Friendship .
=> Soviet advisors and Chinese industrial infrastructure projects . Cdamst factories (
↳) aid + technical
economic expertise
* Red Army occupied Tibet
* Korean War Breaks out = USSRB China Support North Korea UStUN & South Korea
* China establishes diplomatic relations with India
* of
Democratic Republic Vietnam is
recognised by China and USSR
*
Agrarian Reform Laws
↳> made land Court
improvements to
agriculture , allowed peasants to own + created people's
↳) support for Mao from
more peasants
1951
↳) Forced Dalai Lama Chinese Control
to
sign a 17 point agreement recognising
↳) Buddhist
Tibet had some in freedom religion
=
authority government & religious
↳) of Chinese civil and headquarters Lhasa
allows establishment
military at
* mutual aid ,
when farmers helped eachother on their own individual land .
1953
-
/
&
= IVE YEAR PLAN * STALIN DIES !
① industrialising China +
increasing agriculture production .
BUT at what cost ?
* Co-operatives formed sharing of land resources are owned
by government + lived farm
, ,
you on
your
4) major ! O doubled
overcrowding industrial output was coal + urban population increased : pressure
services
on
* Seato-aid for
* state control increased Southeast Asia
Treaty Organisation .
↳ USSR =
critical
↳ Bas Domino & Korean war !
* Korean War Over => abt 900000 Chinese troops died : Mao blamed us-bended instalemate
1954
* China B India sign the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence / Panchsheel
=> assures territorial integrity + peaceful coexistence
* Ho Chi Minh takes Control of North Vietnam
* Geneva conference -in french government agrees to
peace talks .
* Vietnam divided into North and South Vietnam War Start
* Mac becomes president of PR(
* Dalai Lama visits Beijing for talks with Mao , but China still fails to honour the Seventeen
Point
Agreement.
, 1955
The Chinese Character
Simplification Scheme
Li boosted
literacy .
1956
Krushcher delivers "secret speech -
1)
t
Desalinisation "peaceful co-existence" =
cowardly
↑ criticised USSR for moving away
Mao LOVE
angers Mao ,
Stalin 1) so this · anti-revisionist movement from Stalin & Lenin .
1957
flowers Campaign criticism/free speech * USSR promises. Nuclear
100 -I
allowing .
weapons .
* China builds road across Aksai Chin-1
Himalayan mountains -
> access to Tibet .
1958
The Great Leap Forward
① backyard steel furnaces -
> Great Chinese Famine = D USSR criticised .
3) Krushchev's first
July = visit to
Beijing
1959
March
Full scale breaks Lhasa
uprising out in
+
* Dalai Lama & ministers flee to North India + 80000 Tibetans
↳ 'government-in-exile in India -
goes against India-China relations .
# Great Leap Forward Fails .
* caused extreme restrictions -
1) Tibet is isolated from outside world .
1960
Sino-Soviet Split !
USSR withdraws all aid
China jealous of USSR aid other countries .
giving to
1962
India Fight
China & brief border War with New Delhi suffering defeat
= Aksai Chin & Arunachal Pradesh .
=> China wins - gets Aksai Chin * india had USSR &USA aid .
* China Criticise USSR as weak for how
they handled Cuba.
1963
Foreign visitors are banned from Tibet * USA involved in Vietnam War
1964
China develops its own nuclear bomb
deepening split
1965
China backs
pakistan
in India-Pakistan War , USSR backs India .
1966 -
69
USA is Mao's cultural revolution .
revolted
by *
many Buddhist temples = lookedI destroyed
by Red Army .
1969
USA think USSR =
bigger threat
: wanted to strengthen China to counter Soviet power .
1990
China think USA = weak bes of Vietnam War
1971
Ping Pong diplomacy USA table tennis team Visit China .