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Russo-Japanese War (First time an Asian nation had beat a European nation- beginning of global warfare in the Pacific)

1904-05

Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown, ‘10) (Separated church and state, guaranteed right to organize, ended 30 year dictatorship and endorsed nationalism)

1910-20

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing- ended Imperial system of thousands of years, created republic)

1911

Panama Canal (Opened) (Symbolized US tech and econ power and revolutionized international trade)

1914

World War I (new military tech, led to the fall of imperial dynasties, led to russian revolution, started wwii)

1914-18

Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates) (allowed anti-bolshevik forces to take the city, ended the March part of the revolution, provisional government is established)

1917 Feb/Mar

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik) (Lenin- Red Army vs. Mensheik- White army- 14 million white die- Red army leads to end of WWII due to peacy treaties)

1917 Oct/Nov

Balfour Declaration (Established Jewish state in Palestine- started arab vs. palestine)

1917 Nov

Armistice (end of WWI fighting- didn’t completely end but stopped the western front)

1918 Nov

Treaty of Versailles (most controversial in history, pinned blame on Germany, started WWII)

1919

Washington Naval Conference (Naval disarmament of East Asia- preventing another war- failed with no enforcement mechanism- halted battleship tech)

1921-22

Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war- endorsed peace- Germany was treated kinder but failed due to militarism and fascism)

1928

New York Stock Market Crash (led to great depression, led to the rise of Hitler)

1928

Salt March (Gandhi’s) (Pushed Indian suffrage into the western view, led to victory)

1930

Japanese invasion of Manchuria (led to Sino-Japanese War, increased tensions before WWII, set stage for more Japanese aggression in china)

1931

Italian invasion of Ethiopia (Hundreds of thousands died, colonized the last standing uncolonized nation, used weaposn developed in WWI)

1935

Japan invades (rest of) China (rape of Nanking) (200,000 men died, 20,000 raped, impact relations today, war crimes, set stage for WWII)

1937

German blitzkrieg into Poland (beginning of WWII in Europe) (GB and France declare war)

1939

Pearl Harbor (US entry into WWII)

1941

Battle of Stalingrad (turning point of war) (stopped german advances, turned tide to allies, often called bloodiest battle of history)

1942-43

Bretton Woods Conf (Post-war Econ Planning) (Created IMF, new rules on econ, created international currency exchange, US dominance in currency)

1944

Yalta Conference (Divided German into 4 zones, Stalin promises free elections and wanted buffer zone, established the iron curtain) (beginning of Cold War?)

1945 Feb

A-Bomb tested (Manhattan Project) (research producing atomic weapons- Soviet Union infiltrated and set the precedent for cold war)

1945 Jul

Hiroshima/Nagasaki (Atomic bomb, changed world forever, started cold war, killed up to 215k, effects to this day)

1945 Aug

End of WWII (Japan surrenders- America becomes the dominant player on world stage, Germany falls, 3% of world pop. died, new tech)

1945 Sept

Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War- started intervening the USA, promised econ + military assistance to any country threatened by communism)

1947 June

Independence & partition of India (Separated Pakistan and India, large scale loss of life sparked 3 wars and a bunch of migration)

1947 Aug

Birth of Israel (helped against anti semitism)

1948

Berlin Blockade/Airlift (Solidified iron curtain, Soviets stopped flow of resources to western, US + UK took to the sky)

1948-49

NATO founded (Unified western nations, keep democracy)

1949 Apr

Chinese Communist Revolution (China falls to communism, cuts ties wiht USA, increased cold war tensions)

1949 Oct