1900-Present WHAP Dates

Russo-Japanese War

1905

Mexican Revolution

1910-1920

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

1911

World War I

1914-1918

Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

1917 March

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

1917 Oct/Nov

Armistice (end of WWI fighting)

1918 Nov

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Stock market crash

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, entry of US into WWII

1941

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

1945 Feb

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 Aug

End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

1945 Sept

Truman Doctrine ("official" decl of Cold War)

1947 June

Independence & Partition of India

1947 Aug

Birth of Israel

1948

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1948-49

NATO founded

1949 Apr

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949 Oct

Korean War

1950-1953

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)

1954

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)

1955

Krushchev begins de-Stalinization

1956 Feb

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

1956 Fall

Sputnik

1957

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1959

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1966-1976

6-Day War

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 June

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989 Nov

Namibia gains independence (last African colony)

1990

1st Persian Gulf War

1991 Jan

USSR disbands

1991 Dec

Rwandan Genocide

1994 Apr-Jul

1st all race elections- South Africa

1994 Apr

9/11 Attacks

2001

US Invades Iraq

2003

Facebook Founded

2004

Global "Great Recession" begins

2007

Wikileaks, "Arab Spring"

2011