Unit 6: 1914-Present Flashcards
World War I
1914-1918
Fall of the Qing/Chinese Revolution
1911
Paris Peace Conference
1919
Treaty of Versailles
1919
Russo-Japanese War
1904-1905
Bloody Sunday
1905
Russian Revolution (March)
1917
October Revolution/Bolshevik Revolution
1917
Great Depression
1929-1939
World War II
1939-1945
Indian Independence
1947
Chinese Civil War
1927-1950
Cultural Revolution
1966-1976
Japanese Invasion of China
1937
Rape of Nanking
1937
Pearl Harbor
1941
Dropping of the Atomic Bombs
August 1945
Formation of the UN
1945
Cold War
1947-1991
Truman Doctrine
1947
Formation of NATO
1949
Geneva Confrence
1954
Korean War
1950-1953
Cuban Revolution
1959
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Creation of Israel
1947
Formation of the European Community
1957
Formation of the European Union
1993
Vietnam War
1955-1975
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
1979-1989
Apartheid
1948-1991
Iranian Revolution
1979
Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988
Persian Gulf War
1990-1991
Formation of the IMF
1944
Formation of NAFTA
1993
Formation of OPEC
1960
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989
Fall of the USSR
1985-1991
Green Revolution
1960s
Mexican Reovlution
1910-1920