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沈重远, 1932–2000 (aged 67 years)

Name
/沈/重远
Given names
重远
Surname
沈
Birth
September 1932
32nd President of the United States
Franklin D Roosevelt
March 4, 1933 (aged 6 months)
Chinese American Events
Chinese Exclusion Act
from May 9, 1882 to 1943 (aged 10 years)
Note: An official act legalizing discrimination against Chinese in the United States. Poster: 'Chinese Must Go'.
Note: Source citation: Chinese Exclusion Act Wikipedia
Chinese Conflicts
Second Sino-Japanese War
from July 7, 1937 to September 9, 1945 (aged 13 years)
Note: Some historians consider this the true start of World War Two. Japan's attempt to conquer China, after subjugating Manchukuo.
World Conflict
Attack on Pearl Harbor
from December 7, 1941 (aged 9 years)
Note: Source citation: Attack on Pearl Harbor Wikipedia
Note: The date the United States enters WW2.
33rd President of the United States
Harry S Truman
April 12, 1945 (aged 12 years)
China Government/Dynasties
Republic of China
from 1912 to 1949 (aged 16 years)
Note: Source citation: Republic of China Wikipedia
Global Conflict
World War II
from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (aged 13 years)
Note: Source citation: World War Two Wikipedia
Note: Western world's time period for World War II.
Chinese American Events
McCarthyism
from 1940 to 1950 (aged 17 years)
Note: Source citation: McCarthyism Wikipedia
Note: An example of memes and slogans during this time was 'better dead than red' and the Domino theory
Chinese American Events
Internment of Japanese Americans
from February 19, 1942 to March 20, 1946 (aged 13 years)
Note: Another example of anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.
Chinese Conflicts
Chinese Communist/Kuomintang Civil War
from August 10, 1945 to December 7, 1949 (aged 17 years)
Note: This represented the defeat and withdrawal of the Kuomintang to Taiwan by Mao Zedong
China Government/Dynasties
People's Republic of China
1949 (aged 16 years)
34th President of the United States
Dwight D Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 (aged 20 years)
Chinese American Conflicts
Korean War
from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953 (aged 20 years)
Note: Source citation: Korean War Wikipedia
35th President of the United States
John F Kennedy
January 20, 1961 (aged 28 years)
36th President of the United States
Lyndon B Johnson
November 22, 1963 (aged 31 years)
37th President of the United States
Richard Nixon
January 20, 1969 (aged 36 years)
Death of a father
沈志明
May 21, 1973 (aged 40 years)
38th President of the United States
Gerald Ford
August 9, 1974 (aged 41 years)
American Conflicts
Vietnam War
from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975 (aged 42 years)
Note: Source citation: Vietnam_War Wikipedia
Chinese Events
Cultural Revolution
from 1949 to 1976 (aged 43 years)
Note: The wanton distruction of Chinese clan genealogy documents along with cultural relics by the Red Guards made tracing Chinese Americans family heritage even harder. This represented Mao Zedong' s attempt to regain local control of China.
Note: Source citation: Cultural Revolution Wikipedia
American INS program
Chinese Confession Program
from 1956 to 1965 (aged 32 years)
Note: A program of the Immigration and Naturalization Service allowing reconciliation of the illegal entry status of paper sons. This caused much fear and distrust among the Chinese American population. The number of participants were less than initially predicted.
39th President of the United States
Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 (aged 44 years)
40th President of the United States
Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981 (aged 48 years)
Death of a mother
YING WenChan
April 23, 1987 (aged 54 years)
41st President of the United States
George H W Bush
January 20, 1989 (aged 56 years)
42nd President of the United States
Bill Clinton
January 20, 1993 (aged 60 years)
Death of a mother
YING WenChan
Death
2000 (aged 67 years)
Birth
Death