Cold War 1949-1955 Dates

Russo Japanese War

1904 - 1905

Mount Suribachi Battle

WW2 Battle February 19th 1945 - 26th March 1945

Battle of Okinawa

1st April - 22nd June 1945

Reconstruction of Japan

1945-1952

Allies introduce a new constitution to Japan’s leaders

1947

Reverse course begins

1947

San Francisco peace treaty

September 1951

Chinese civil war

1927 - 1949

When was Chinese Communist Party founded?

1921

People’s Republic of China established

October 1949

When did Chiang Kai Shek lead Chinese nationalist party from?

1928

USA starts to support Chiang Kai Shek

1941

Sino Soviet Pact

14th February 1950

Chinese communists captured Beijing

Early 1949

CCP captures Nanjing

April 1949

The Marshall Mission

1945 - 1946

Truman announces he will continue to support the KMT but not intervene militarily

December 1945

George Marshall insists on truce

Spring 1946

Defeat of the nationalists

1946-1949

Chiang launches major assault

July 1946

KMT swept CCP out of the Yangtze region

October 1946

Nationalists seized Yenan

Spring 1947

Mao orders offensives in Manchuria and Northern China

December 1947 - March 1948

CCP advanced into central China

Autumn 1949

Mao declares New People’s Republic of China

1st October 1949

USSR Explodes their first atomic bomb

28th August 1949

Dean Acheson Secretary of State under Truman’s Administration

1949-1953

Defensive perimeter strategy

January 1950

NSC-68

7th April 1950

Rollback implemented

1950s

Containment dominates US gov

Since 1945

Harry Truman as president

12th April 1945 - 20th January 1953

Korean war

25th June 1950 - 27th July 1953

Korea looses independence to Japan

1910

Kim II Sung

1912 - 1994 north Korea Communist

Syngman Rhee

1875-1965

North Korea makes proposals to Stalin for an invasion of South

From 1949

USA national security priorities were Japan

Until 1949

North Korean invasion of the south

25th June 1950

Dean Acheson claimed that North Korea’s purpose was to destabilise Japan

May 1951

Kim II Sung (n/c) requested soviet support

March 1949

Stalin agreed to supply North Korea

February 1950

Stalin declared he old not commit soviet forces if North Korea came into conflict with USA

April 1950

China intervened in Korean War

November 1950

UNTOCK (Temp commission on Korea)

May 1948

Phase 1

June - September 1950

Phase 2

September - November 1950

Phase 3

December 1950 - June 1951

Phase 4

June 1951 - July 1953

Chinese forces captured Seoul

January 1951

UN declared china as an aggressor

February 1951

USA indicate negotiations of ceasefire

June 1951

Dwight Eisenhower wins US election

1952

Talks of negations over Korean War begins

July 1951 - 1953

Death of Stalin

March 1953

Panmunjom Armistice Agreement

27th July 1953

South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty

September 1954

Sino soviet alliance + when was it strengthened

1950 strengthen in may 1953

Federal Republic of Germany joins council of Europe

November 1949

Treaty that abolished Statute of Occupation in FRG

May 1952

West Germany joins NATO

MAY 1955

Warsaw Pact formed

May 1955

NSC 162/2 report

October 1953

New look policy adopted

1952

Vietnam War

1st November 1955 - 30th April 1975

French pulled out of Indochina

1954

Ho Chi Minh

1890-1969

Ho Chi Minh becomes leader of Vietnam

1954 - 1969

Vietminh formed

1941

Ho Chi Minh organises resistance to french occupation

1945-1954

Vietminh formed gov in North Vietnam

1954

Indochina been part of french empire since

1887

Japan surrenders from Indochina

1945

Battle of Dien Bien phu

13th march 1954

Geneva Agreements

1954