Russo-Japanese War - (1905)
Mexican Revolution - (1910-1920)
Chinese Nationalist Revolution - (1911)
World War I Begins - (1914)
Russian Revolution - (1917)
Treaty of Versailles - (1919)
Stock Market Crash - (1929)
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria - (1931)
Italian Invasion of Ethiopia - (1935)
German Blitzkrieg in Poland - (1939)
Pearl Harbor/Entry of U.S. into WWII - (1941)
End of WWII - (1945)
Independence & Partition of India - (1947)
Birth of Israel - (1948)
Chinese Communist Revolution - (1949)
Korean War - (1950-1953)
Vietnamese Defeat French at Dien Bien Phu - (1954)
De-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal - (1956)
Cuban Revolution - (1959)
Cuban Missile Crisis - (1962)
6-Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution - (1967)
Yom Kippur War - (1973)
Iranian Revolution - (1979)
1st Palestinian Intifada - (1987)
Tiananmen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall - (1989)
Namibia Gains Independence - (1990)
Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War - (1991)
Genocide in Rwanda/1st All-Race Elections in South Africa - (1994)
9/11 Attacks - (2001)
Global “Great Recession” Begins - (2007)
Wikileaks/“Arab Spring” Democracy Movement - (2011)