WHAP dates 1900-2011 Flashcards by Natalie Miltonberger | Brainscape

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Russo-Japanese War

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1905

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Mexican Revolution

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1910-1920

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Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

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1911

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World War I

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1914-1918

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Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

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1917 March

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Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

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1917 Oct/Nov

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Armistice (end of WWI fighting)

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1918 Nov

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Treaty of Versailles

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1919

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Stock market crash

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1929

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria

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1931

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Italian invasion of Ethiopia

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1935

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Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)

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1937

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German blitzkrieg in Poland

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1939

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Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

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1941

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Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

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1945 Feb

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Hiroshima/Nagasaki

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1945 Aug

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End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

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1945 Sept

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Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War)

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1947 June

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Independence & Partition of India

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1947 Aug

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Birth of Israel

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1948

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Berlin Blockade/Airlift

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1948-1949

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NATO founded

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1949 April

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Chinese Communist Revolution

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1949 Oct

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Korean War

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1950-1953

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Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)

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1954

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Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)

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1955

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Krushchev begins de-Stalinization

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1956 Feb

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Nationalization of the Suez Canal

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1956 Fall

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Sputnik

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1957

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Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

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1959

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

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Chinese Cultural Revolution

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1966-1976

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6- Day War

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1967

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Yom Kippur War/Opec Oil Embargo

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1973

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Iranian Revolution

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1979

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China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms” (Deng Xiaoping)

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1979

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1st Palestinian Intifada

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1987

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Tiananmen Square

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1989 june

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Fall of Berlin Wall

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1989 Nov

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Namibia gains independence (last African colony)

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1990

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1st Persian Gulf War

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1991 jan

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USSR disbands

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1991 Dec

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Rwandan Genocide

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1994 April-July

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1st all race elections- South Africa

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1994 April

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9/11 Attacks

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2001

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US Invades Iraq

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2003

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Facebook Founded

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2004

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Global “Great Recession” begins

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2007

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Wikileaks, “Arab Spring”

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2011