1900-Present Must Know Dates

Question 1

1905

Answer 1

Russo-Japanese War

Question 2

1910-1920

Answer 2

Mexican Revolution

Question 3

1911

Answer 3

Chinese Revolution

Question 4

1914

Answer 4

World War One

Question 5

1917

Answer 5

Russian Revolution

Question 6

1919

Answer 6

Treaty of Versailles, ends World War One

Question 7

1929

Answer 7

Crash of US Stock Market

Question 8

1931

Answer 8

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

Question 9

1935

Answer 9

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Question 10

1939

Answer 10

German blitzkreig in Poland

Question 11

1941

Answer 11

Japan spits on Hawai’i, US enters WWII

Question 12

1945

Answer 12

End of WWII

Question 13

1947

Answer 13

Independence and Partition of India

Question 14

1948

Answer 14

Israel created

Question 15

1949

Answer 15

Chinese Communist Revolution

Question 16

1950-1953

Answer 16

Korean War

Question 17

1954

Answer 17

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

Question 18

1956

Answer 18

De-Stalinization, Nationalization of Suez Canal

Question 19

1959

Answer 19

Cuban Revolution

Question 20

1962

Answer 20

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 21

1967

Answer 21

Six Day War - Chinese Cultural Revolution

Question 22

1973

Answer 22

Yom Kippur War

Question 23

1979

Answer 23

Iranian Revolution

Question 24

1987

Answer 24

St Palestinian intifada

Question 25

1989

Answer 25

Tienanmen Square - Fall of Berlin Wall

Question 26

1990

Answer 26

Namibia gains independence (last African country to do so)

Question 27

1991

Answer 27

Fall of USSR, first gulf waar

Question 28

1994

Answer 28

Genocide in Rwanda, First all race election in South Africa

Question 29

2001

Answer 29

9/11 in America (of course)

Question 30

2007

Answer 30

Global Great Recession begins

Question 31

2011

Answer 31

Wikileaks, Arab Spring democracy movement