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Unit 5 dates

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1905
Russo-Japanese War (fought between Russia and Japan over rival imperial concerns in Manchuria and Korea, Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific, ended when Theodore Roosevelt negotiated peace)
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution (resentment over 1% of the population all of Spanish ancestry owning 85% of the land and wealth, Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa are revolutionary leaders, didn't change that much but the Constitutionalists won and gave communal lands to Amerindians and started programs for the poor)
1911
Chinese Revolution (led by Sun Yat-sen and the Revolutionary Party (Guomingdang), ended the dynastic cycle which started with the Shang in 1750 BCE, ends up starting a civil war)
1914
WWI (began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, alliances cause war, Allies: UK, France, Russia (for the 1st part), U.S. and Italy for the last part versus the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire )
1917
Russian Revolution (ends the Romanov dynasty which began in 1618, Bolshevik Party, leader was Vladimir Lenin, communist revolution)
1919
Treaty of Versailles (peace treaty to end WWI, created the mandate system in the Middle East, League of Nations, and was very punitive to Germany)
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1941
Pearl Harbor, Entry of US into WWII (surprise attack by the Japanese devastating the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing over 2,400, Allies: UK, U.S., Russia versus Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan)
1945
end of WWII, creation of the United Nations
1946
Election of Juan Peron in Argentina (populist dictatorship, industrialized rapidly, wife Eva Peron helped his popularity, inspired by Nazi Germany)
1947
Independence & Partition of India (India for Hindus, Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) for Muslims agreed upon by the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League)
1947-1991
Cold War (basically the US and its NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies (capitalism) and the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies(communism), lots of proxy wars take place during the Cold War)
1948
Creation of the nation of Israel (UN split the land from Palestine to create Jewish state, created a Palestinian refugee issue)
1949
Chinese Communist Revolution (established the People's Republic of China, leader Mao Zedong, defeated Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomingdang (who fled to Taiwan)
1950-1953
Korean War (end of WWII left Korea divided at the 38th parallel, Soviet Union in charge of Communist North Korea and the U.S. in charge of the Capitalist South Korea, at the end of the war Korea was divided at the 38 parallel)
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