Must know Dates Unit 7-8

Question 1

Russo-Japanese war

Answer 1

1905

Question 2

Mexican revolution

Answer 2

1910-1920

Question 3

Chinese Revolution

Answer 3

1911

Question 4

WWI

Answer 4

1914

Question 5

Russian Revolution

Answer 5

1917

Question 6

Treaty of Versailles end of WWI

Answer 6

1919

Question 7

U.S. stock market crash

Answer 7

1929

Question 8

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Answer 8

1931

Question 9

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Answer 9

1935

Question 10

German blitzkrieg in Poland

Answer 10

1939

Question 11

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

Answer 11

1941

Question 12

End of WWII

Answer 12

1945

Question 13

Independence & partition of India

Answer 13

1947

Question 14

Birth of Israel

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

Chinese Communist Revolution

Answer 15

1949

Question 16

Korean War

Answer 16

1950-1953

Question 17

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien PHu

Answer 17

1954

Question 18

De-stalinization

Answer 18

1956

Question 19

Cuban Revolution

Answer 19

1959

Question 20

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 20

1962

Question 21

6-Day War/Chinese cultural revolution

Answer 21

1967

Question 22

Yom Kippur War

Answer 22

1973

Question 23

Iranian Revolution

Answer 23

1979

Question 24

1st Palestinian Intifada

Answer 24

1987

Question 25

TIananmen square

Answer 25

1989

Question 26

Fall of Berlin Wall

Answer 26

1989

Question 27

Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so)

Answer 27

1990

Question 28

Fall of USSR

Answer 28

1991

Question 29

1st Gulf war

Answer 29

1991

Question 30

Genocide in Rwanda

Answer 30

1994

Question 31

First all race elections in S. Africa

Answer 31

1994

Question 32

9/11

Answer 32

2001

Question 33

Global Great Recession begins

Answer 33

2007

Question 34

Wikileaks, “Arab spring” democracy movement

Answer 34

2011