US through 1950
As US Secretary of State, this former general offered $13 billion to European countries recovering from the devastation of World War II
Who is George Marshall?
Of the top 10 bestselling movies of all time (adjusted for inflation), how many were made by the US?
What is all of them (though only 3 were set in America)?
Ending 25 years of diplomatic isolation, President Nixon famously visited China and met Mao in this year.
What is 1972?
The People's Republic of China is declared on October 1st of this year.
What is 1949?
The People's Republic of China joins these two D.C.-based global finance institutions in 1980.
What are the IMF and the World Bank?
What is the Fourteen Points?
This US government agency is credited--or blamed--for helping to overthrow left-wing governments in Guatemala and Iran in the 1950s.
What is the CIA?
During the Chinese Civil War, the US supported the Kuomintang, led by this general.
Who is Chiang Kai Shek?
This radical attempt to transform China's industry in contributed to the deaths of up to 30 million people.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
In 1989, many Western countries suspended ties with China after its brutal crackdown on the 3-month student occupation of this prized piece of Beijing real estate.
Resurrected by President Trump, this term describes the USA' withdrawal from global interventionism in the 1930s.
What is isolationism?
Though expeditionary forces has been operating in Vietnam since 1950, the first US combat troops came ashore in Danang in this year.
What is 1965?
Among the US' top five trading partners today (individual countries), China ranks here.
What is first?
Proudly brandishing Mao's Little Red Book, these teenage revolutionaries led the charge against the 'Four Olds' in the Cultural Revolution.
Who are the Red Guards?
On top of Deng's four modernizations, calls for this fifth one were met with government repression.
What is democracy?
This president's rapid victory in the Spanish-American War launched America's on the path to global dominance in the 20th century.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Better known as 'Star Wars', this Reagan-era initiative sought to shoot down missiles from outer space.
What is SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)?
Returning Nixon's visit to China, Deng Xiaoping came to the US during the tenure of this president.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Launched in 1956, short-lived program invited criticism of the regime, only to shut it down again in the Anti-Rightists' Campaign.
What is the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
China joins the World Trade Organization in this year, increasing its access to global markets.
What is 2001?
Drafted by the US and the UK and later signed by all the Allies, this 1941 document's vision of a future world order inspired the UN, GATT, and self-determination for the colonized world.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
These four US outfits are among the six largest tech companies in the world (by revenue).
What are Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft?
Nearly provoking war with the US, Mao began to bomb these these two Nationalist island strongholds in 1958.
What are Quemoy and Matsu?
Thanks to early technical help from the Soviets, China conducts its first nuclear test in this year.
What is 1964?
Ceded to the British in this 1842 'unequal treaty', Hong Kong reverted back to Chinese rule in 1997.
What is the Treaty of Nanking?