Taiwan History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 29 January ______, the Formosa Resolution was approved by both houses of the U.S.
  2. Complete the sentence about First Taiwan Strait Crisis with the correct year: On 2 December ______, the United States and the ROC agreed to the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, which did not apply…
  3. Complete the sentence about Second Taiwan Strait Crisis with the correct year: On 24 and 25 August ______ Chinese Communist forces and Nationalist forces clashed in the vicinity of Dongding Island, wh…
  4. Complete the sentence about Third Taiwan Strait Crisis with the correct year: Tseng, as an envoy of Lee, had met President Yang Shangkun in ______ and had a secret connection with Ye Xuanning, Head of…
  5. Complete the sentence about Chinese Civil War with the correct year: The united front broke up and war broke out between the KMT and the CCP on 1 August ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Chinese Civil War with the correct year: The CCP calls this the Second Revolutionary Civil War; it lasted until ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Chinese Civil War with the correct year: In addition, ROC guerrilla forces continued to operate in mainland China and northern Burma until ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Chinese Civil War with the correct year: After the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, both tacitly ceased to engage in open conflict in ______; however, no armistice or peace tre…
  9. Complete the sentence about Chinese Civil War with the correct year: Yuan failed in a short-lived attempt to declare himself emperor, and China fell into power struggle after his death in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Battle of Guningtou with the correct year: In early July ______, the PLA began invading Fujian under the command of the 10th Corps of the Third Field Army, led by General Y…
  11. Complete the sentence about Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan with the correct year: The flight to Taiwan took place over four weeks after Mao Zedong had declared the foundi…
  12. Complete the sentence about Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan with the correct year: The civil war between KMT and CCP forces, which took a de jure hiatus during the Japanes…
  13. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In January ______, Chiang Kai-shek stepped down as leader of the KMT and was replaced by his vice-president, Li Zongren.
  14. Complete the sentence about Chinese Taipei with the correct year: Following the PRC's withdrawal in ______, the IOC continued to grapple with the question of China's representation.
  15. Complete the sentence about Chinese Taipei with the correct year: The IOC subsequently permitted the ROC to compete under the name Republic of China in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Chinese Taipei with the correct year: In ______, the PRC applied to rejoin the IOC as the sole sports organization representing the whole China.
  17. Complete the sentence about United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 with the correct year: By January ______ the PRC was in control of mainland China but was unable to capture Taiwan, Penghu…
  18. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Taiwan with the correct year: In ______, the Nationalists lost the Chinese Civil War in mainland China and retreated to Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Mat…
  19. Complete the sentence about Formosa Incident with the correct year: In the ______ election, Tangwai expanded support significantly and won more seats than ever before.
  20. Complete the sentence about Formosa Incident with the correct year: President Jimmy Carter announced that the U.S. would sever its official relationship with the Republic of China as of 1 January ____…
  21. Complete the sentence about Formosa Incident with the correct year: On 21 January ______, the KMT arrested Yu Teng-fa, another Tangwai leader, and his son with the intentional false accusation of prop…
  22. Complete the sentence about Wild Lily student movement with the correct year: The demonstrations coincided with the inauguration of Lee Teng-hui on 21 March ______ to a six-year term as president.
  23. Complete the sentence about Same-sex marriage in Taiwan with the correct year: The bill was passed on 17 May, and President Tsai Ing-wen signed it on 22 May, with the law taking effect on 24 May _____…
  24. Complete the sentence about Elections in Taiwan with the correct year: Elections were held for the first time in Taiwan by the Japanese colonial government on 22 November ______, electing half of the…
  25. Complete the sentence about Elections in Taiwan with the correct year: The ceding of Taiwan was formalized under the Treaty of Taipei in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Elections in Taiwan with the correct year: The government of the Republic of China, led by the Kuomintang, retreated to Taiwan Island in ______ after losing the Chinese Civ…
  27. Complete the sentence about 2024 Taiwan presidential election with the correct year: Tsai's vice president, Lai Ching-te, ultimately became the party chairperson by acclamation in late ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Republic of China Armed Forces with the correct year: As part of this effort, the Whampoa Military Academy was founded on 1 May ______ with Soviet trainers and equipment.
  29. Complete the sentence about Republic of China Navy with the correct year: During the Xinhai Revolution, by late October ______, nearly the entire Qing fleet had defected to the revolutionary forces.
  30. Complete the sentence about Republic of China Navy with the correct year: In parallel with these developments, the Republic of China Marine Corps was reactivated on September 16, ______, as part of a…
  31. Complete the sentence about Republic of China Air Force with the correct year: The history of the ROCAF traces back to ______, when military aviation was first introduced by the Kuomintang within its…
  32. Complete the sentence about Republic of China Air Force with the correct year: On August 14, ______ — "Air Force Memorial Day” — Chinese Hawk IIIs of the 4th Pursuit Group under Col.
  33. Complete the sentence about Republic of China Army with the correct year: As of ______, the Army's 35 brigades include 25 infantry brigades, five armoured brigades and three mechanized infantry brigad…
  34. Complete the sentence about Ministry of National Defense with the correct year: The MND was originally established as Ministry of War in ______ at the creation of the Republic of China.
  35. Complete the sentence about Ministry of National Defense with the correct year: The Law of National Defense and the Organic Law of the ministry were officially promulgated for implementation on 1 Marc…
  36. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of the Republic of China with the correct year: Soong negotiated a division of labor with the Bank of China in ______ that refocused the latter on foreign-exch…
  37. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of the Republic of China with the correct year: In ______, the CBC lost jurisdiction over Northeast China to the Central Bank of Manchou in Changchun.
  38. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of the Republic of China with the correct year: In late July ______, it was granted a monopoly over currency issuance in the territorial area controlled by the…
  39. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of the Republic of China with the correct year: On 8 November ______, the newly revised Central Bank of China Act was promulgated.
  40. Complete the sentence about New Taiwan dollar with the correct year: After the communists captured Beijing in January ______, the Nationalists began to retreat to Taiwan.
  41. Complete the sentence about New Taiwan dollar with the correct year: Even though the New Taiwan dollar was the de facto currency of Taiwan, statutes after ______ still define the silver yuan or silver…
  42. Complete the sentence about Economy of Taiwan with the correct year: After ______, the Kuomintang limited large private enterprise in order to maintain political power.
  43. Complete the sentence about Economy of Taiwan with the correct year: Taiwan's insularity from the ______ Asian Financial Crisis is often attributed to the resilience, adaptability, and entrepreneurial…
  44. Complete the sentence about Hsinchu Science Park with the correct year: After Shu became minister in ______, he traveled to the United States, Europe, and Japan to study the conditions under which sci…
  45. Complete the sentence about Hsinchu Science Park with the correct year: In ______, Shu came up with the idea of building a science and technology park like that of Silicon Valley.
  46. Complete the sentence about Taiwanese indigenous peoples with the correct year: The earliest detailed records, dating from the Dutch arrival in ______, describe the indigenous as living in independent…
  47. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Nine groups were originally recognized before ______ by the Japanese government.
  48. Complete the sentence about Taiwanese Hokkien with the correct year: Tale of the Lychee Mirror, a manuscript of a series of plays published during the Ming dynasty in ______, is one of the earliest kn…
  49. Complete the sentence about Taiwanese Hokkien with the correct year: By ______, he had grown so powerful that the Ming court bestowed him the official title, "Patrolling Admiral".
  50. Complete the sentence about Paiwan people with the correct year: Tsai Ing-wen, elected as President of Taiwan in ______, is ¼ Paiwan via her grandmother.
  51. Complete the sentence about Paiwan people with the correct year: In February ______, Li Lin, the oldest Paiwan person with hand tattoos, died at the age of 102.
  52. Complete the sentence about Bunun people with the correct year: Raho Ari formally ended guerrilla activities against Japan in April ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Bunun people with the correct year: In ______ the Bunun were relocated following the Pasnanavan incident.
  54. Complete the sentence about Truku people with the correct year: The Taroko resisted and fought the Japanese in the ______ Truku War.
  55. Complete the sentence about Tsou people with the correct year: Originally, each clan had its own settlement, with the first multi-clan town, Tfuya, forming approximately ______ CE.
  56. Complete the sentence about Tsou people with the correct year: The earliest written record of the Tsou dates from the Dutch colonial period, which describes the multi-clan settlement Tfuya as having a…
  57. Complete the sentence about Saisiyat people with the correct year: The first Indigenous victim of the White Terror was Jih Chin-chun, a Saisiyat man executed in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Kavalan people with the correct year: The earliest record of the Kavalan in history was in ______, when a Spanish ship went astray to this area by a typhoon.
  59. Complete the sentence about Kavalan people with the correct year: In ______, the Kavalan, and their Sakizaya allies, fought a devastating battle against Qing invaders after a dispute with Qing officia…
  60. Complete the sentence about Mainland Affairs Council with the correct year: As the relation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait cooled down, ROC government allowed family-related visits to main…
  61. Complete the sentence about Mainland Affairs Council with the correct year: The Executive Yuan established the Inter-Agency Mainland Affairs Committee in August ______ as a taskforce to handle mainlan…
  62. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The third reading of the act was passed by the Legislative Yuan on 18 January ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Straits Exchange Foundation with the correct year: Thus on 9 March ______, the SEF was formally established with the help of the government and private sector funds.
  64. Complete the sentence about Straits Exchange Foundation with the correct year: On 11 April ______, the Executive Yuan approved a bill to open SEF branch offices in Mainland China.
  65. Complete the sentence about Wang Jingwei with the correct year: Wang attended Hosei University in Japan on a Qing government scholarship, and joined the revolutionary Tongmenghui in Tokyo in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Hu Shih with the correct year: Shortly before Hu Chuan's death in ______, his wife Feng and the young Hu Shih left Taiwan for their ancestral home in Anhui.
  67. Complete the sentence about Hu Shih with the correct year: On 16 August ______, he was sent to study agriculture at Cornell University in the United States.
  68. Complete the sentence about Hu Shih with the correct year: In ______, he changed his major to philosophy and literature, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
  69. Complete the sentence about Soong Mei-ling with the correct year: Luke's Hospital in Shanghai, while others gave the year as ______, since Chinese tradition considers one to be a year old at birth.
  70. Complete the sentence about Soong Mei-ling with the correct year: In ______, Ching-ling was accepted by her sister Ai-ling's alma mater, Wesleyan College, at age 15 and both sisters moved to Macon, Ge…
  71. Complete the sentence about Soong Mei-ling with the correct year: In ______, Wesleyan's newly appointed president, William Newman Ainsworth, gave her permission to stay at Wesleyan and assigned her tu…
  72. Complete the sentence about Soong Ching-ling with the correct year: Soong survived the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution but appeared less frequently after ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Soong Ching-ling with the correct year: During her final illness in May ______, she was given the special title of "Honorary Chairman of the People's Republic of China".
  74. Complete the sentence about Lien Chan with the correct year: Upon returning to Taiwan in ______, he became a professor at National Taiwan University, entered politics, and held multiple ministerial an…
  75. Complete the sentence about James Soong with the correct year: After failing to gain the KMT nomination, Soong ran as an independent in the ______ presidential election.
  76. Complete the sentence about James Soong with the correct year: Soong was born in China on April 30, ______, in Xiangtan, Hunan, province.
  77. Complete the sentence about Ko Wen-je with the correct year: In ______, Ko began attending National Hsinchu Senior High School, where four uncles and his brother had previously attended.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ko Wen-je with the correct year: After graduating from medical school in ______, Ko briefly worked in the anesthesiology department of a hospital in Hsinchu.
  79. Complete the sentence about Hou Yu-ih with the correct year: Hou Yu-ih was born on 7 June ______ in Puzi, Chiayi County, Taiwan.
  80. Complete the sentence about Annette Lu with the correct year: After graduating with an LL.B. in ______, she won a scholarship to complete graduate studies in the United States.
  81. Complete the sentence about Hsiao Bi-khim with the correct year: Hsiao graduated from Oberlin with a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Hsiao Bi-khim with the correct year: After Chen Shui-bian took office as the President of the Republic of China in ______, Hsiao served as his interpreter and advisor for n…
  83. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Miracle with the correct year: In ______, he called for Taiwan to deal with its chronic shortage of foreign exchange by increasing exports rather than reduce imports…
  84. Complete the sentence about Chiang Wei-shui with the correct year: In ______ he began participating in the movement to found the Taiwan Assembly.
  85. Complete the sentence about Chiang Wei-shui with the correct year: In ______, the Taiwan Cultural Association split because of an internal ideological division between rightists and leftists.
  86. Complete the sentence about Liu Mingchuan with the correct year: In ______, during the Taiping Rebellion, he built his hometown's army, encouraged people to join, and suppressed several rebellions of…
  87. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he led about 500 men to join Li Hongzhang's Huai Army.
  88. Complete the sentence about Liu Mingchuan with the correct year: In ______ Huai Army commander Li Hongzhang and vice commander Liu attacked Changzhou to recover the city.
  89. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Garrison Command with the correct year: On 20 May ______, Chen Cheng, in his capacity as commanding general for the province and its military governor, declared mart…
  90. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Garrison Command with the correct year: The Taiwan Garrison Command was involved in the ______ murder of lawyer and opposition politician Lin I-hsiung and his family…
  91. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Garrison Command with the correct year: On 30 April ______, President Lee Teng-hui declared the termination of the Period of Communist Rebellion and Taiwan Garrison…
  92. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Provincial Government with the correct year: Since ______, its functions have been transferred to the National Development Council and other ministries of the Execut…
  93. Complete the sentence with the correct year: At the end of World War II, Japan surrendered on August 15, ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Provincial Government with the correct year: The Taiwan Provincial Administrative Office was established by the Executive Yuan in Chungking on September 1, ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Provincial Government with the correct year: After the February 28 incident in ______, the Executive Yuan decided to restructure the Provincial Administrative Office…
  96. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Provincial Government with the correct year: On May 16, ______, the Taiwan Provincial Government was established.
  97. Complete the sentence about Taiwan Area with the correct year: The Japanese occupation ended with the imperial surrender in ______, but the term "Free China" was soon to acquire a new meaning in the c…
  98. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: The National Assembly resumed its meeting in Taipei in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: In response, the Qing dynasty formed the first assembly in ______, but it was virtually powerless and intended only as an advisory…
  100. Complete the sentence about National Assembly with the correct year: In ______, the Chinese Communist Party won the Chinese Civil War and mainland China became the People's Republic of China.

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