Period 6: 1900- Present

Question 1

Mexican Revolution

Answer 1

1910-1920

Question 2

Chinese Revolution, Dynasties end- republic set up

Answer 2

1911

Question 3

WW1

Answer 3

1914-1918

Question 4

Russian revolution; communism arrives

Answer 4

1917

Question 5

Treaty of Versailles negotiated

Answer 5

1919

Question 6

Great Depression begins

Answer 6

1929

Question 7

Japanese imperialism begins with invasion of Manchuria

Answer 7

1931

Question 8

Beginning of WW2/ Poland invaded

Answer 8

1939

Question 9

End of WW2/ atomic bombs dropped

Answer 9

1945

Question 10

Decolonization in Asia and Africa

Answer 10

1940s - 1960s

Question 11

Independence of India

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

Birth of Israel/First Arab-Israeli War

Answer 12

1948

Question 13

Chinese Communist Revolution

Answer 13

1949

Question 14

Nationalization of Suez Canal

Answer 14

1956

Question 15

Cuban Revolution/Castro and Communism

Answer 15

1959

Question 16

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 16

1962

Question 17

Chimes cultural revolution

Answer 17

1967

Question 18

Iranian revolution

Answer 18

1979

Question 19

Tiananmen Square revolt in China

Answer 19

1989

Question 20

Berlin Wall falls

Answer 20

1989

Question 21

Fall of USSR

Answer 21

1991

Question 22

First Gulf war- USA vs Iraq

Answer 22

1991

Question 23

Genocide in Rwanda

Answer 23

1994

Question 24

Apartheid ends in S. Africa

Answer 24

1994

Question 25

Terrorist attack on USA on 9/11

Answer 25

2001

Question 26

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 26

1905