Period 6 Dates

Question 1

1989

Answer 1

Berlin Wall falls

Question 2

1994

Answer 2

Genocide in Rwanda

Question 3

1914

Answer 3

WW1 begins(ends 1918)

Question 4

1994

Answer 4

Apartheid ends in S. Africa

Question 5

1917

Answer 5

Russian Revolution begins(communism begins)

Question 6

1919

Answer 6

Treaty of Versailles negotiated

Question 7

1959

Answer 7

Cuban Revolution/ Castro and communism

Question 8

1911

Answer 8

Chinese Revolution:dynasties end;republic set up

Question 9

2001

Answer 9

Terrorist attack on U.S on sept. 11

Question 10

1905

Answer 10

Russo Japanese war

Question 11

1962

Answer 11

Cuban missile crisis

Question 12

1948

Answer 12

Birth of Israel/first Arab-Israeli war

Question 13

1945

Answer 13

End of WWII/ atomic bomb dropped

Question 14

1931

Answer 14

Japanese imperialism begins with invasion of Manchuria

Question 15

1939

Answer 15

Beginnings of WWII/Poland invaded

Question 16

1989

Answer 16

Tiananmen Square revolt in China

Question 17

1979

Answer 17

Iranian revolution

Question 18

1949

Answer 18

Chinese communist revolution/red China born

Question 19

1947

Answer 19

Independence and partition of India

Question 20

1967

Answer 20

Chinese cultural revolution

Question 21

1940’s-1960’s

Answer 21

Decolonization in Africa and Asia

Question 22

1991

Answer 22

Fall of USSR

Question 23

1910

Answer 23

Mexican Revolution(ends 1920)

Question 24

1929

Answer 24

Global depression begins after U.S stock market collapses

Question 25

1991

Answer 25

First gulf war- US vs Iraq

Question 26

1956

Answer 26

Nationalization of Suez Canal