AP World History Dates Quiz 1900-Present

Russo-Japanese war

1905

Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown)

1910-1920

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

1911

World War I/ Treaty of Versailles

1914-1918/19

Russian Revolution

1917

Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war)

1928

Stock market crashes

1929

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1931

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1935

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

1937

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1939

Pearl Harbor, US entry into WWII

1941

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War??)

1945

A-Bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945

End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

1945

Truman Doctrine ("official" decl of Cold War)

1947

Independence and Partition of India/Pakistan

1947

Birth of Israel

1948

Berlin blockade/airlift

1948-1949

NATO founded

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949

Korean War

1950-1953

Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)

1954

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned nations)

1955

Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization

1956

Sputnik

1957

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1959

Cuban missile crisis

1962

Vietnam War

1965-1973

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1966-1976

6-Day War between Israel & Arab States

1967

Yom Kippur War (OPEC oil embargo)

1973

Iranian Revolution

1979

China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms (Deng Xiaoping)

1979

1st Palestinian Intifada

1987

Tiananmen Square

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

Namibia gained independence (last African colony)

1990

1st Persian Gulf War

1991

USSR disbanded

1991

Genocide in Rwanda

1994

1st all race elections in S Africa

1994

9/11 attacks; "war on terror" begins

2001

US invades Iraq

2003

Facebook founded

2004

Global "Great Recession" begins

2007-08

Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy

2011

Syrian Civil War begins

2011

Rise of Islamic State

2014