Period 4 TL

1905*

1905*

Russo-Japanese war

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Nationalist Revolution

1914*

WW1

1917*

Russian revolution

1919

Treaty of Versailles, end of WW1

1929

Stock Market Crash

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor entry of U.S. into WWII

1945*

End of WWll

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 Crises

1967

6-day war/ Chinese cultural revolution

1973

Yom Kippur war

1979

Iranian revolution

1987

1st palestinian intifade

1989

Tiananmen square/ Fall of Berlin wall

1990

Namibia gains independence ( last African concert)

1991

fall of ussr (1st gulf war)

1994

Genocide in Rwanda

2001

9/11 attack

2007*

global “Great Recession” begins

2011

Wikileaks, “Arab spring “ democracy movement