WHAP dates 1900-2011 Flashcards
Russo-Japanese War
1905
Mexican Revolution
1910-1920
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
1911
World War I
1914-1918
Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)
1917 March
Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)
1917 Oct/Nov
Armistice (end of WWI fighting)
1918 Nov
Treaty of Versailles
1919
Stock market crash
1929
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1935
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)
1937
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1939
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
1941
Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)
1945 Feb
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
1945 Aug
End of WWII (Japan surrenders)
1945 Sept
Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War)
1947 June
Independence & Partition of India
1947 Aug
Birth of Israel
1948
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
1948-1949
NATO founded
1949 April
Chinese Communist Revolution
1949 Oct
Korean War
1950-1953
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)
1954
Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)
1955
Krushchev begins de-Stalinization
1956 Feb
Nationalization of the Suez Canal
1956 Fall
Sputnik
1957
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)
1959
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Chinese Cultural Revolution
1966-1976
6- Day War
1967
Yom Kippur War/Opec Oil Embargo
1973
Iranian Revolution
1979
China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms” (Deng Xiaoping)
1979
1st Palestinian Intifada
1987
Tiananmen Square
1989 june
Fall of Berlin Wall
1989 Nov
Namibia gains independence (last African colony)
1990
1st Persian Gulf War
1991 jan
USSR disbands
1991 Dec
Rwandan Genocide
1994 April-July
1st all race elections- South Africa
1994 April
9/11 Attacks
2001
US Invades Iraq
2003
Facebook Founded
2004
Global “Great Recession” begins
2007
Wikileaks, “Arab Spring”
2011