Period 4 timeline test

1905

Russo-Japanese War

Signifiance: Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in East Asia, thereby becoming the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution

1914

WWI begins

Significance: It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey), resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.

1917

Russian Revolution

Significance: paved the way for the rise of communism as an influential political belief system around the world.

1919

Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI

1929

stock market crash

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

Significance: The Communist victory had a major impact on the global balance of power: China became the second major socialist state, and, after the 1956 Sino-Soviet Split, a third force in the Cold War.

1945

End of WWII

Significance: At the end of the war, millions of people were dead and millions more homeless, the European economy had collapsed, and much of the European industrial infrastructure had been destroyed. The Soviet Union, too, had been heavily affected.

1947

Independence and partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

1956

de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal

1959

Cuban Revolution

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Significance: It was the closest the world has come to war between the US and USSR, nuclear war and annihilation. It was also a classic example of Cold War brinkmanship.

1967

6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution

1973

Yom Kippur War

1979

Iranian Revolution

1987

1st Palestinian Intifada

1989

Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall

1990

Namibia gains independence (last African colony)

1991

Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War

1994

genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa

2001

9/11 Attacks

Significance: The destruction of the World Trade Center and nearby infrastructure seriously harmed the economy of New York City and created a global economic recession. Many countries strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist attacks.

2007

Global "Great Recession" begins

2011

Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy movement

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