hisy dates

4–11 February 1945

4–11 February 1945

Yalta Summit and Un establishment

10 December 1948

UDHR passed

9 September 1948

North Korea established

25 June 1950

start of korean war

27 July 1953

Korean armistice signed

15th century

independence from China

1850

French colonisation

1940

Japanese takeover

1941

establishment of Vietminh

1945

Vietminh takedown of Japan

2 September 1945

establishment of democratic republic of vietnam

19 December 1946

start of 1st Indochina war

13 March 1954

Start of Dien Bien Phu

7 May 1954

Dien Bien Phu surrender

1 August 1954

End of 1st Indochina war

1954

vietnam divided

1 November 1955

start of vietnam war

2 November 1963

death of ngo dinh diem

1965

american intervention

30 January 1968

start of tet offensive

23 Sept 1968

end of tet offensive

1973

peace treaty in effect (US an Vietnam)

29 April 1975

final attack on saigon

30 April 1975

end of vietnam war

1788

frontier wars

1850s to 1970

stolen generations

1909

Aborigines Protection Act and start of protectionism

1930s

great depression

26 January 1938

day of mourning

1949

IA became au citizens

1951

start of assimilation

1965

freedom rides

1962

IA could vote

1963

yirrkala bark petition

1966

first recognition of IA land (Gurindji)

1967

referendum

March 1976

Aboriginal Land Rights Act

1991

start of reconciliation

June 1992

Mabo decision

1993

native title act

13 February 2008

official national apology