dates (1900-2001)

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1910-20

mexican revolution (diaz overthrown)

1911

chinese revolution (end of qing)

1914-18

ww1

1917

russian revolution

1919

treaty of versailles

1929

new york stock market crash

1939

german blitzkrieg in in poland (beg of ww2)

1941

pearl harbor (US entry into WW2)

1942-43

battle of stalingrad (turning pt of war)

1945

end of WW2 (japan surrender)

1947

truman doctrine (“official” decl of cold war)

1947

independence + partition of india

1948

birth of israel

1949

NATO founded

1949

chinese communist revolution

1950-53

korean war

1956

suez canal crisis (nasser nat’lizes)

1959

cuban revolution (fidel castro)

1961-1989

berlin wall

1967

6 day war

1979

iranian revolution (ayatollah khomeini)

1991

persian gulf war + USSR disbands

1994

NAFTA formed