Timeline Test 1900-present Flashcards
1905
Russo-Japanese war
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
1911
Chinese nationalist revolution
1914
WWI begins
1917
Russian Revolution
1919
Treaty of Versailles, end WW1
1929
Stock market crash
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1941
Pearl Harbor
1945
End of WWII
1947
Independence and partition of India
1948
Birth of Israel
1949
Chinese communist Revolution
1950-1953
Korean War
1954
Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
1956
De-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal
1959
Cuban Revolution
1962
Cuban Missile crisis
1967
6-day War/ Chinese cultural Revolution
1973
Yom Kippur War
1979
Iranian Revolution
1987
1st Palestinian intifada
1989
Tiananmen Square/Berlin wall falls
1990
Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so)
1991
Fall of USSR/1st gulf war
1994
Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S Africa
2001
9/11 attacks
2007
Global Great Recession
2011
Wikileaks, Arab spring