IB Fives History Essential Dates and Significance

Birth of Christ 0*

Actually thought to be around 4 BC

Columbus arrives in New World 1492*

Start of modern age of imperialism

Russian Revolution 1917*

Bolsheviks take power

End of WW1 1918*

Armistice Day 11/11

Treaty of Versailles 1919*

Paris Peace Treaty for Germany

Women's right to vote 1920

result of women's involvement in WWI

Mussolini takes power 1922

Start of Fascism

Lenin's death 1924

followed by Stalin's rise to power

NY Stock Market Crash 1929*

Beginning of the Great Depression

Invasion of Manchuria by Japan 1931

Start of 14-year long Sino-Japanese War

Hitler takes power 1933

Took power by legal means

Start of Abyssinian War 1935

Ended in 1936

Start of WW2 in Asia 1937*

Japanese attack outside of Beijing

Start of WW2 in Europe 1939*

German and Soviet invasion of Poland

"A date which will live in infamy" 1941.12.07*

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Start of WW2 for US 1941*

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

WW2 ends in Europe 1945.05

V-E Day

WW2 ends in Asia 1945.08

V-J Day

End of WW2 1945*

two ends, one in May, one in August

Founding of Communist China 1949*

led by Mao Zedong

Fall of Berlin Wall 1989*

End of Cold War Part 1

Breakup of the Soviet Union 1991*

End of Cold War Part 2