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Apr 13, 1000
BEGINNING OF KOREA
The Korean Peninsula was inhabited from the Lower Paleolithic about 400,000-700,000 years ago.[1][2][3] The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 1000 BC, and the Neolithic period began before 6000 BC, followed by the Bronze Age by 800 BC,[4][5][6] and the Iron Age began around 400 BC. Korea is considered to be one of the oldest countries in the world.[4] -
MAO ZEDONG COMES TO POWER
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung listen (help·info), and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. He was the architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949, and held control over the nation until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism -
CREATION OF UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions. -
YALTA CONFERENCE
The main objective of Winston Churchill and Stalin was the capture of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not agree and the decision of the USA Military commander, General Dwight Eisenhower, to head south-east to Dresden, ensured that Soviet forces would be the first to reach Berlin. -
BEGINNING OF VIETNAM
Vietnam ( listen) is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2011, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. Its diplomatic name is Viet Nam, and it is officially known as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam; listen). The name translates as "South Viet" and was adopted officially in 1945. -
FINAL RESULT OF KOREA
After the liberation in 1945, the partition of Korea created the modern two states of North and South Korea. In 1948, new governments were established, the Democratic South Korea ("Republic of Korea") and Communist North Korea ("Democratic People's Republic of Korea") divided at the 38th parallel. The unresolved tensions of the division surfaced in the Korean War of 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one now recognized as non-existent, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron. -
TET OFFENSIVE
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968. The purpose of the offensive was to utilize the element of surprise and strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place. -
PRESIDENT NIXON VISITS CHINA
Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its staunchest foes, and the voyage ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
ENDING OF VIETNAM
During Vietnam War, the United States suffered 58,119 killed, 153,303 wounded, and 1,948 missing in action. Casualty figures for the Republic of Vietnam are estimated at 230,000 killed and 1,169,763 wounded. Combined the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong suffered approximately 1,100,000 killed in action and an unknown number of wounded. It is estimated that between 2 to 4 million Vietnamese civilians were killed during the conflict. -
ENDING OF WORLD WAR 2
Under the terms of this peace treaty, the Four Powers renounced all rights they formerly held in Germany, including Berlin. As a result, Germany became fully sovereign on March 15, 1991. Under the terms of the Treaty, the Allies were allowed to keep troops in Berlin until the end of the year 1994 (articles 4 and 5). In accordance with the Treaty, occupying troops were withdrawn by that deadline.
