WHAP DATES 1900-PRESENT

1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

1914-1918

World War I

1917 March

Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

1917 Oct/Nov

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

1918 Nov

Armistice (end of WWI fighting)

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1929

Stock market crash

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, entry of US into WWII

1945 Feb

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

1945 Aug

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 Sept

End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

1947 June

Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War)

1947 Aug

Independence & Partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1948-49

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1949 Apr

NATO founded

1949 Oct

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)

1955

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)

1956 Feb

Krushchev begins de-Stalinization

1956 Fall

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

1957

Sputnik

1959

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1966-1976

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

1989 June

Tiananmen Square

1989 Nov

Fall of Berlin Wall

1990

Namibia gains independence (last African colony)

1991 Jan

1st Persian Gulf War

1991 Dec

USSR disbands

1994 Apr-Jul

Rwandan Genocide

1994 Apr

1st all race elections- South Africa

2001

9/11 Attacks

2003

US Invades Iraq

2004

Facebook Founded

2007

Global “Great Recession” begins

2011

Wikileaks, “Arab Spring”