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The Open Door Policy
The Open Door Policy was a term in foreign affairs originally used to refer to the United States policy. The policy suggests China be open to trade with all countries on an equal basis. That means that it keeps any one power from total control of the country. The policy with the dual (two) intentions of avoiding the actual political division of China, and also taking financial benefits, but only in a fair way, acknowledging equal rights for all nations to trade with China. -
Sino Soviet Treaty of Friendship
China announced it was representing socialism; the treaty of friendship and alliance was signed by the Soviet Union and ‘old’ China, so now there was hesitation how to assess the treaty with new situations. Mao Zedong suggested a new treaty be signed by the countries. The treaty states that if one country fights another will join in and keeps peace between the two (ex: Cold War). -
Communist Control of China 1949
Communist control of China- leader was Mao Zedong, after WW2 created People’s Republic of China. This created a civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party. When the China mainland failed it led to a communist government in 1949. Members of the Communist Party purge killed members of the Nationalist party, forcing them to become communists as well. While WW2 went on more people supported communist ideas because with undemocratic policies/practices it made China an eas -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea and was the first military attack, which shocked America, who feared now that communism might start to take over the whole world. The National Security Council thought it’d be best if they went to back up South Korea. d. America joined and the fighting went on for quite a long period of time, Both sides resigned and signed a treaty giving South Korea more territory. -
Second Taiwan Crisis
The Second Taiwan Crisis was a conflict that took place between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Taiwan governments in which the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen and nearby Matsu islands along the east coast of the PRC (in the Taiwan Strait) to try and drive away the Republic of China (ROC) army. Taiwan Strait to try and drive away the ROC army. The "soft" foreign policy of China had subscribed in the 1950s gave way to a "hard" line. -
Great Leap Forward
Mao (one of the world's strongest communist leaders seen) leader of China introduced The Great Leap Forward which was a five year plan to get China to have more agriculture and a stronger industry. Mao reformed China into communes to do so and in each commune there were roughly 500 people who together worked in agriculture or industry. . At the end of the Great Leap Plan, the results were not as expected du to flooding, millions starved. -
Sino-Soviet Split
The Sino-Soviet Split (1960–1989) was the fall of political and ideological relations between the neighboring states of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960’s, the PRC and USSR were the two largest communist states in the world. In the 1950’s and the 1960’s, ideological debate between the communist parties of the USSR and China also concerned the opportunity of peaceful coexistence with the capitalist West. -
Nixon visit to China
Richard M. Nixon met Premier Zhou, and Chairman Mao Zedong. The two nations made an open-trade policy -- goods could be traded freely between the two countries. This was an important event because the U.S. was trying to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. This visit ended a 25 year separation between the two nations which was also very important. The theory for opening up China was for the U.S. to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union.
