WHAP: Contemporary 1914 - Present Quiz

Test is this Wednesday

1914

WWI

1917

Russian Revolution

1919

Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI

1929

stock market crash

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1939

 German blitzkrieg in Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1945

end of WWII

1947

independence & partition of India

1948

birth of Israel

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950-1953

Korean War

1956

destalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal

1959

Cuban Revolution

1962

Cuban missile crisis

1967

6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution

1973

Yom Kippur war

1979

Iranian Revolution

1987

1st Palestinian Intifada

1989

 Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall

1991

fall of USSR/1st Gulf war

1994

genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in Africa

2001

9/11 Attacks