1900 DATES

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WW2

1941

Yalta Conference

1945 Feb

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1945 Aug

End of WW2

1945 Sept

Truman Doctrine

1947 June

Independence and Partition of India

1947 Aug

Birth of Israel

1948

Berlin Blockade, Airlift

1948-1949

NATO founded

1949 April

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949 Oct

Russo-Japanese War

1905

Mexican Revolution

1910-1920

Chinese Revolution

1911

WW1

1914-1918

Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates)

1917 March

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

1917 Oct/Nov

Armistice (end of WW1 fighting)

1918 Nov

Treaty of Versailles

1919

stock market crash

1929

Japanese Invasian of Manchuria

1931

Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

1935

Japanese Invasion of China

1937

German Blitzkreig in Poland

1939

Korean War

1950-1953

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

1954

Bandug Conference (non aligned nations)

1955

Khrushchev begins de-stalinization

1956 Feb

Nationalization of Suez Canal

1956 Fall

Sputnik

1957

Cuban Revolution

1959

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1966-1967

6-day war

1967

Yom Kippur war

1973

Iranian Revolution

1979

China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms”

2nd 1979

1st Palestinian Intifada

1987

Tiananmen Square

1989 June

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989 Nov

Namibia gains independence

1990

1st Persian Gulf War

1991 Jan

USSR disbands

1991 Dec

Rwandan Genocide

1994 Apr-July

1st all race elections in S. Africa

1994 Apr

9/11 attacks

2001

US invades Iraq

2003

Facebook founded

2004

Global “Great Recession” begins

2007

Arab Spring

2011