Category: Asia

Japan, 1951 On September 8th, 1951, representatives from Japan and the United States signed the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan in San Francisco, California. In five articles, the Treaty dictated the future of American involvement in and

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Accessed: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-14/what-really-happened-gulf-tonkin-1964  The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was passed on August 7, 1964. The resolution was passed after Congress was told that the U.S.S. Maddox had been targeted by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on August 2nd, 1964

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-geneva-accords-1954-3310118 The Geneva Accords were signed in July 1954. The Accords allowed France to pull its troops out of northern Vietnam while also acting as an insurance measure for other countries that were concerned about the spread of communism in

On December 15, 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations, set to begin on January 1, 1979, between the U.S. and  China. The U.S. recognized the communist People’s Republic of China as the government for

On August 23, 1958, Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong, began firing artillery shells at the Quemoy and Matsu Islands, the territory of the Chinese nationalists, who were based in Taiwan and led by Chiang-Kai Shek. Shortly following this attack,

The cover photograph of a New York Times article, titled “Atlantic Allies at London Parlay Plan to Review Ties with Soviet,” published on January 1, 1980 by Pranay Gupte, of the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Peter Carrington, at the London

Japan, 1971 After World War II, Japan’s economy grew at an unprecedented rate, becoming the world’s second-largest economy by the end of the Cold War. A long history of well-informed decisions by the Japanese and United States drove this change.