20th century whap timeline quiz

1910

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Mexican Revolution (-1920)

1911

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

1914

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: WWI (-1918; Treaty of Versailles 1919)

1917

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Russian Revolutions (March, November)

1918

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Spanish Flu

1930s

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Great Depression (1929-)

1931

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: WWII (-1945; Invasion of Manchuria -1931, China/Rape of Nanking-1937, Poland -1939)

1947

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Truman Doctrine; Cold War begins

Independence and partition of India

1950

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Korean War (-1953)

Green Revolution (-1970; spread of agricultural technologies)

1954

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Vietnam expels France; US involvement gradually escalates (-1975; fall of Saigon)

1957

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Ghana becomes the 1st Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence

1958

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Great Leap Forward (Chinese Communist Revolution, 1949)

1959

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Cuban Revolution

1968

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Global protests & uprisings (Prague Spring; Soviets invade and crush reforms in Czechoslovakia)

1979

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Soviet War in Afghanistan (-1989); Iranian Revolution & hostage crisis

1985

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Gorbachev initiates reforms: Glasnost & Perestroika

1989

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: Berlin Wall falls; Soviet Union collapses & disintegrates (1991)

2001

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: 9/11 terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda against the U.S.; U.S. war in Afghanistan (-2021)

2003

Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: U.S. invasion of Iraq