Must know Dates Unit 7-8 Flashcards
1
Q
Russo-Japanese war
A
1905
2
Q
Mexican revolution
A
1910-1920
3
Q
Chinese Revolution
A
1911
4
Q
WWI
A
1914
5
Q
Russian Revolution
A
1917
6
Q
Treaty of Versailles end of WWI
A
1919
7
Q
U.S. stock market crash
A
1929
8
Q
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
A
1931
9
Q
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
A
1935
10
Q
German blitzkrieg in Poland
A
1939
11
Q
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
A
1941
12
Q
End of WWII
A
1945
13
Q
Independence & partition of India
A
1947
14
Q
Birth of Israel
A
1948
15
Q
Chinese Communist Revolution
A
1949
16
Q
Korean War
A
1950-1953
17
Q
Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien PHu
A
1954
18
Q
De-stalinization
A
1956
19
Q
Cuban Revolution
A
1959
20
Q
Cuban missile crisis
A
1962
21
Q
6-Day War/Chinese cultural revolution
A
1967
22
Q
Yom Kippur War
A
1973
23
Q
Iranian Revolution
A
1979
24
Q
1st Palestinian Intifada
A
1987
25
TIananmen square
1989
26
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989
27
Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so)
1990
28
Fall of USSR
1991
29
1st Gulf war
1991
30
Genocide in Rwanda
1994
31
First all race elections in S. Africa
1994
32
9/11
2001
33
Global Great Recession begins
2007
34
Wikileaks, "Arab spring" democracy movement
2011
