1900 - present

1905

Russo-Japanese war.

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown).

1911

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing).

1914-1918/19

World War I / Treaty of Versailles

1917

Russian Revolution.

1928

Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war).

1929

Stock market crashes.

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia.

1937

Japanese invasion of (rest of) China; Rape of Nanking.

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland.

1941

Pearl Harbor, US entry into WWII.

1945

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War??).

1945

A-Bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

1945

End of WWII (Japan surrenders).

1947

Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War).

1947

Independence and Partition of India/Pakistan.

1948

Birth of Israel.

1948-1949

Berlin blockade/airlift.

1949

NATO founded.

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution.

1950-1953

Korean War.

1954

Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu).

1955

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned nations).

1956

Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization.

1957

Sputnik.

1959

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro).

1962

Cuban missile crisis.

1965-1973

Vietnam War.

1966-1976

Chinese Cultural Revolution.

1967

6-Day War btwn Israel & Arab States.

1973

Yom Kippur War (OPEC oil embargo).

1979

Iranian Revolution.

1979

China begins “Socialist Market Economy” reforms (Deng Xiaoping).

1987

1st Palestinian Intifada.

1989

Tiananmen Square.

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall.

1990

Namibia gained independence (last African colony).

1991

1st Persian Gulf War.

1991

USSR disbanded.

1994

Genocide in Rwanda.

1994

1st all race elections in S Africa.

2001

9/11 attacks; “war on terror” begins.

2003

US invades Iraq.

2004

Facebook founded.

2007-2008

Global “Great Recession” begins.

2011

Wikileaks, “Arab Spring” democracy.

2011

Syrian Civil War begins.

2014

Rise of Islamic State.