20th Century Dates Quiz

1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated - WWl starts

1917

March and November (Bolshevik) Revolutions in Russia

1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed (Russia withdraws from war); WW ends

1922

Mussolini comes to power in Italy and establishes the 1st Fascist government; Russia officially becomes known as the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) - The Soviet Union

1923

Beer Hall Putsch in Germany

Mid 1920's

Era of Locarno. Germany joins the League of Nations. Dawes and Young Plans

1929

Stock Market Crash in the US - The Great Depression begins

1931

Mukden Incident

1933

Hitler comes to power in Germany- FDR begins Good Neighbor Plan in Latin America

1935

Mussolini invades Ethiopia

1936-1939

Spanish Civil War

1937

Japan invades mainland China

1937

Rape of Nanking

1938

Munich Conference ("Peace in our time" - Neville Chamberlain)

1939

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

1939

World War Il starts with Germany's invasion of Poland

1939

Cash and Carry Act passed by the US Congress

1940

Italy joins WWil after the fall of France

March 1941

Lend Lease Act passed

June 1941

German invasion of the USSR

December 1941

Pearl Harbor- US joins WWII

1945

World War II ends (V-E Day - May 8 1945 and V-J Day - August 15

1945-1989

Cold War (U.S. vs. S.U. -begins and begins to end in Poland)

1946

Decolonization - Many European colonies become independent

1948-1949

Berlin Airlift/Blockade

1949

USSR gets the bomb-China Falls!

1950-1953

Korean War

1953

Stalin dies and is succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev - "destalinization" begins

1956

Geneva Accords- the US doesn't sign them

1959

Castro comes to power in Cuba

1962

Bay of Pigs

1963

Cuban Missile Crisis

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1975

Saigon falls

1989

Berlin Wall comes down;

1990

East Germany and West Germany reunify into one Germany

1991

End of the U.S.S.R.; Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia

1999

Euro Currency introduced

2001

Terrorist Attacks on the United States