1900 - 2025 Dates

1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution/End of Qing Dynasty

1914-1918

WW1

1917 March

Russian Revolution (Tsar)

1917 November

Russian Bolshevik Revolution

1918

Armistice (End of WW1)

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1929

Stock Market Crash

1931

Japan invades Manchuria

1935

Italy invades Ethiopia

1937

Rape of Nanking

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor/Entrance of USA into WW2

1945 February

Yalta Conference

1945 August

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 September

Japan surrenders/End of WW2

1947 June

Truman Doctrine (Declaration of Cold War)

1947 August

Independence and Partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1948-1949

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1949 April

NATO founded

1949 October

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

1955

Bandung Conference

1956 Feb

De-Stalinization in Russia

1956 Fall

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

1957

Sputnik

1959

Cuban Revolution

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1966-1967

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1967

6 Day War

1973

Yom Kippur War/Opec Oil Embargo

1979

Iranian Revolution

1979

China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms”

1987

1st Palestinian Intifada (Rebellion)

1989 June

Tienanmen Square

1989 November

Fall of Berlin Wall

1990

Nambia (last African colony) gains independence

1991 January

1st Persian Gulf War

1991 December

USSR Disbands

1994 April - July

Rwanda Genocide

1994 April

1st all race elections - South Africa

2001

9/11 Attacks

2003

US invades Iraq

2004

Facebook founded

2007

Global great recession begins

2011

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