The fact we provided of the Modern History of China is based on a chronological list of important events. Events are selected from an objective point of view, based on their significance to subsequent developments.
Major Events (1946 - 1948)
• US representative George Marshall began his mediating mission in China. (1946)
• The United States placed an embargo on the shipment of arms and ammunition to the Nationalist forces in China. (1946)
• Communist forces began its first large-scale offensives in Manchuria. (1947)
• The new National Assembly was elected. (1947)
• The US Congress approved the China Aid Act. (1948)
• The city of Shenyang in Manchuria was captured by Communist forces. (1948)
Major Events (1949 - 1965)
• Founding of the People’s Republic of China (1949)
• Land Reform (1950)
• Korean War (1950 - 1953)
• Hundred Flowers Movement (1956)
• Anti-Rightists Movement (1957)
• The Great Leap Forward (1958)
• Split with the Soviet Union (1960)
Major Events (1966 - 1976)
• The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
• Destroy the Four Olds (1966)
• Foreign Embassies Attacked (1967)
• Sino-Soviet Clashes (1969)
• Ping Pong Diplomacy (1971)
• Nixon Visited China (1972)
• The Gang of Four (1973)
• Chiang Kai-shek died in Taiwan (1975)
• Death of Mao Zedong (1976)
Major Events (1977 - 1989)
• Rise of Deng Xiaoping (1977)
• The U.S. Recognized the People's Republic of China (1979)
• War with Vietnam (1979)
• The Four Modernizations (1979)
• The Gang of Four on Trial (1980)
• Creation of Special Administrative Regions (1982)
• One Country – Two Systems (1984)
• Elections in the Republic of China (1986)
• Martial Law Revoked in the Republic of China (1987)
• President Chiang Ching-kuo Died in Taiwan (1988)
• Democracy Movement in Beijing (1989)
