War on Terror – 2001 to present
Ten days after the attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush announces the War on Terror which evolved to a multidimensional
Historical events that are referenced in the play
Category: GEOMANCER Doomed to repeat
Tiananmen 1989
Tiananmen were student-led pro-democracy demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing starting in April 1989. Overnight on June 3, 1989,
Cultural Revolution 1966-72
Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong when he shut down schools and called for a massive youth mobilization to take
Great Leap Forward 1959
Great Leap Forward was a mass mobilization of rural workers in water works projects, backyard steel production, and other projects
Chinese Nuclear Missile 1966
1964 to 1966: China became the fifth nation to explode an atom bomb, a miraculous feat given its poor economic
Red Scare – Early 1950’s
McCarthyism of the Red Scare was a period of five years when Senator Joseph McCarthy tried in vain to expose
People’s Republic of China – 1949
On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with the takeover by
Tokyo Trials – 1946
General MacArthur convened the International Military Tribunal for the Far East also known as the Tokyo Trials which found 28
Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945
1945: On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by a unit of the US Army. On
Bataan Death March – 1942
The Japanese attacked the Philippines the day after Pearl Harbor December 7, 1942, For three months after the Japanese began
World War II – 1939 to 1945
World War II was a global war with military alliances of the Allies (led by the US, Soviet Union, UK,
Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese Navy Air Service strike on Pearl Harbor led to the US entry into World
1937 Nanking Massacre
Skirmish between Japanese and Chinese troops at the Luguo Bridge sparks full scale invasion of China by Japanese starting with
Sino-Japanese War 1937-45
1937 to 1945: Sino-Japanese War resulted in 3.3 million Chinese Army casualties (wounded, killed and missing) and 35 million civilian
1932 Battle of Shanghai
Japanese aircraft carriers bomb Shanghai (the first terror bombing of a civilian population) from January 29 to March 3 in