Taiwan's Modern Political History

Major events in Taiwan's modern political history:

_October 1945: Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists reclaim control of Taiwan for China, after 50 years of colonial rule by Japan.

_1949: Chiang and hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops, officials and their families retreat to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists on the mainland. Martial law is imposed. Taipei becomes the seat of the government of the Republic of China.

_October 1971: As Nixon administration achieves detente with Mao's regime, Taiwan expelled from the United Nations and the world body's China seat goes to Beijing.

_April 1975: Chiang …