Must - Know Dates 1914 - 2001

WWI begins

1914

Russian Revolution

1917

Treaty of Versailles - end of world war 1

1919

Stock market crash

1929

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

1931

Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

1935

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1939

Pearl Harbor

1941

End ww2

1945

Independence and partition of India

1947

Birth of Israel

1948

Chinese communist revolution

1949

Korean War

1950 - 1953

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

1954

De-Stalinization/Nationalizarion of Suez Canal

1956

Cuban revolution

1959

Cuban missile crisis

1962

6-day war and Chinese cultural revolution

1967

Yom Kippur War in Israel

1973

Iranian revolution

1979

First Palestinian Intifada

1987

Tiananmen Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

Fall of Soviet Union and first gulf war

1991

Genocide in Rwanda and first all race elections in South Africa

1994

9/11

2001