Cold War OCR
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1905
Korea became a protectorate of the Japanese Empire
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1910
Korea became a formal Japanese colony
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1927
Civil War in China officially begins and will not end until 1950
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1930
Ho Chi Minh founds the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP)
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1941
ICP organises guerrilla force, the Viet Minh, in response to Japanese invasion during WWII
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November 1943
Tehran Conference - FDR, Stalin and Churchill
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February 1945
Yalta Conference (FDR/Stalin) - agree a four power trusteeship for Korea
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September 1945
World War II Ends
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July 1945
Potsdam Conference - USSR support attack on Japan as planned at Yalta
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6th August & 9th August 1945
Hiroshima; Nagasaki
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15th August 1945
The surrender of Japan and MacArthur became Supreme Commander of US forces in Japan
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1945
Stage 1 in Japan - punish and reform
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September 1945
Korea's People's Republic announced, independent of Japan
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October 1945
Return of Rhee from USA
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December 1945
Moscow Conference - Joint Soviet-American Commission to oversee elections and Korean Independence
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1945 - Vietnam
Viet Minh seize power and Ho Chi Minh declares independence
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February 1946
Kennan's Long Telegram
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May 1946
War crime trials begin in Japan and end in 1949
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June 1946
Civil War resumed in China
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July 1946
N. Korean Workers Party established
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1946 - Philippines
Bell Trade Act - $620 million injected by US into the Philippines economy
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1946 - Vietnam
War of resistance against France begins in Vietnam
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February 1947
Truman Doctrine
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March 1947
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' Speech
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1947 - Japan
Zaibastsu priviliges end in Japan thanks to Chrysler as well as land reforms
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November 1947
United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea set up to oversee elections in all Korea
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December 1947
Marshall Aid ($13 billion in Europe)
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February 1948
North Korean People's Army established
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June 1948
Berlin Blockade begins (the first major crisis of the Cold War)
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August 1948
Rhee elected President of the Republic of South Korea
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September 1948
People's Democratic Republic of North Korea set up under Kim Il Sung
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March 1949
Kim Il Sung visits Moscow and meets Stalin
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4th April 1949
orth Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - military alliance of 12 countries including the US
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May 1949
Berlin Airlift ends the blockade
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August 1949
USSR successfully tested its own atomic bomb
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October 1949
Mao Zedong establishes the People's Republic of China - it has fallen to communism in part because of US intervention (Mao gained 2.7 million supporters and the US gave $2 billion to nationalists)
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October 1949 - USA
Truman Administration annnounced a 'Defensive Perimeter Strategy'
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1949 - Philippines
Huk Rebellion begins in the Philippines
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1949 - Japan
Congress authorises $500 million per annum aid to Japan
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1949 - USA & Japan
Red Scare in the USA and Red Purge in Japan
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1950 - China
US continue to only recognise Nationalist government in Taiwan
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1950 - Vietnam
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DVR) is recognised by China and USSR
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February 1950
Soviet-Chinese Treaty (5 months after atomic bomb test) - directly against Japan and therefore the US - granted $300 million of Soviet aid to China
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March 1950
Kim Il Sung gains backing from Stalin for offensive against S. Korea
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1950 - Mao
'Paper Tiger' speech from Mao about the nuclear bomb threat
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April 1950
NSC 68 - US National Security Council review document proposing the tripling of America's defence budget estimated around $50 billion per annum
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May 1950
Rhee loses election due to brutal methods, worrying to USA
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25th June 1950
Korean War begins - Communist North invaded across the 38th parallel initially North has a lots of success capturing Seoul, US forces flown in from Japan
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September 1950
Counter-attack in Pusan and Seoul is retaken (80,000 men)
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October 1950
'Rollback' phase, UN were persauded to cross 38th parallel - NSC 81 ordering MacArthur to cross but only Koreans near Soviet/Chinese borders, however, he was pursuing 'total victory' policy
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14th October 1950
180,000 Chinese troops cross Yalu River
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4th January 1951
Chinese forces take Seoul
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15th March 1951
UN and ROK recapture Seoul and N. Korea driven over 38th parallel
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April 1951
MacArthur is dismissed; stalemate begins
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1951 - Korea
USA adopt 'scorched earth policy' making it a war of attrition (Operation Thunderbolt, Killer, Ripper and Rugged)
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8th September 1951
San Francisco Peace Treaty (Stage Four Integrated Cold War policy)
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4th November 1952
Landslide victory for Eisenhower
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20th January 1953
Harry S. Truman is succeeded by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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5th March 1953
Stalin's death meant peace talks became possible
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27th July 1953
Final peace treaty signed by all expect S. Korea - end of Korean War
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May 1954
French defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and USA giving increasing amounts of aid to anti-communist South Vietnam ($385 million for the battle, 80% of the cost)
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July 1954
Geneva Accords divided North and South Vietnam along the 17th parallel with elections planned
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1954 - USA & Vietnam
Eisenhower places 600 military advisors in South Vietnam
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1954 - USA
SEATO is set up - breech of Geneva Accords - USA, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan along with S. Vietnam through Bao Dai and then Diem. They also support Diem's government with $500 million per annum
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1st November 1955
Vietnam War begins
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1956
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem begins campaign against political dissidents
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1956
Beginning of communist insurgency in the South of Vietnam
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1959 - Cuba
Fidel Castro and the communist revolution in Cuba
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1959 - Laos
Fighting occurs on the border between Laos and North Vietnam - seen as a violation of Geneva Accords as aiding communist forces in other countries
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1959 - Vietnam
Weapons and men from North Vietnam have begun to infiltrate the South
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1959 - USA
Eisenhower increases number of advisors in S. Vietnam to 1,500
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20th January 1961
Dwight D. Eisenhower is succeeded by John F. Kennedy
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April 1961
Bay of Pigs - major humiliation for JFK and USA
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August 1961
Berlin Wall
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1962 - USA
Cuban Missile Crisis
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1962 - Vietnam
JFK creates green Berets and military advisors rise to 12,000
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January 1963
Battle of Ap Bac - victory for NLF against US and ARVN
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1963 - Vietnam
Buddhist crisis in S. Vietnam - Catholic Diem
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November 1963
Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
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22nd November 1963
Assassination of JFK - succeeded by VP LBJ
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2nd August 1964
Gulf of Tonkin - gained unanimous support in Congress for entrance into war
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November 1964
landslide election victory for LBJ along with Hawkish Joint Chiefs - Ruske and McNamara
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March 1965
LBJ authorised operation Rolling Thunder with first 3,500 ground troops being sent
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July 1965
125,000 men
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December 1965
200,000 men
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1967
500,000 troops in Vietnam
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January 1968
535,000 ground troops and US spending $30 billion on defence
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March 1968
My Lai
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30th January 1968
Tet Offensive
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June 1968
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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November 1968
Nixon wins election and no new troops are put into Vietnam
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January 1969
Nixon takes over from LBJ
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1969 - Nixon
Nixon secretly bombed Cambodia - didn't tell Congress
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1969 - Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh dies
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April 1970
Invasion of Cambodia - didn't inform Congress - resulted in the death of 1/3 of the population
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June 1970
Nixon withdraws from Cambodia
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1970 - Vietnam
Paris Peace Talks begin with Kissinger
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March 1971
Pentagon Papers are first leaked to NYT
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1971 - Vietnam
Nixon bombed Hanoi and Haiphong
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1973
Paris Peace Accord ended US involvement in the Vietnam War
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August 1974
Nixon stands down after Watergate and Gerald R. Ford takes over
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30th April 1975
Vietnam War ended and Vietnam united under a communist government after N. Vietnamese invade the South taking control of Saigon
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1976
Geralrd R. Ford is succeeded by Jimmy Carter
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Korea became a formal Japanese colony
Back
1910
Card 3
Front
Civil War in China officially begins and will not end until 1950
Back
Card 4
Front
Ho Chi Minh founds the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP)
Back
Card 5
Front
ICP organises guerrilla force, the Viet Minh, in response to Japanese invasion during WWII
Back
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