AP World History Dates 1900-Present
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30 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1905 | Russo-Japanese War |
| 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution |
| 1911 | Chinese Revolution |
| 1914 | World WarI |
| 1917 | Russian Revolution |
| 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 |
| 1945 | End of WWII |
| 1947 | Independence & Partition of India |
| 1948 | Birth of Israel |
| 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution |
| 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 |
| 1967 | 6-Day War / Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur War |
| 1979 | Iranian Revolution |
| 1989 | Tiananmen Square / Fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so) |
| 1991 | Fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War |
| 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda / 1st all race elections in South Africa |
| 2001 | 9/11 Attacks |
| 2007 | Global "Great Recession" begins |
| 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy movement |
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