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United States Relations with China Timeline: Boxer Uprising to Cold War (1900-1949)


Chronology
Office of the Historian
Washington, DC

1900-1910
1911-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949

1900-1910

  • 1900: The Boxer Uprising
  • 1901: The Boxer Protocol Signed
  • 1902, 1904: Provisions of the Geary Act Extended and Expanded
  • 1905-06: Anti-American Boycotts in China
  • 1908: Remittance of the Boxer Indemnity
  • 1908: Root-Takahira Agreement

    1911-1919

  • 1911: The Fall of the Qing Dynasty
  • 1912: Founding of the Republic of China
  • 1915: Japan?s 21 Demands
  • 1917: Lansing-Ishii Agreement
  • 1917: China Entered the Warlord Period
  • 1919: Treaty of Versailles and May Fourth Incident

    1920-1929

  • 1921: Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Opened
  • 1921: Chinese Communist Party Founded
  • 1922: Washington Conference Agreements
  • 1922: Anti-missionary Movement
  • 1924: Immigration Act Extended Exclusion
  • 1925: United States Established China Foundation
  • 1925: May 30th Incident
  • 1925: Death of Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen)
  • 1927: Nationalist Capital Established
  • 1927: End of the United Front
  • 1928: United States Formally Recognized Nationalist Government

    1930-1939

  • 1931: Manchurian Incident
  • 1933: China Requested American Aid in Rural Reconstruction
  • 1934: The Long March
  • 1936: The Second United Front Formed
  • 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War
  • 1938: United States Extended Credits to Nationalists
  • 1938: Indusco Founded

    1940-1949

  • 1941: Aid to China Expanded
  • 1942: United States and China Formed Wartime Alliance
  • 1943: Madame Jiang Jieshi Visited United States
  • 1943: The End of Extraterritoriality and Exclusion
  • 1944: The Dixie Mission
  • 1944: Vice President Visited Chongqing
  • 1945: Japan Surrendered, United States Attempted to Negotiate China?s Civil War
  • 1947: Wedemeyer Mission to China
  • 1948: China Aid Act Passed
  • 1949: People?s Republic of China (PRC) Founded

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