Notable dates from unit five, from 1910-present.
160265212 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution (duration) | 0 | |
160265213 | 1912 | African National Congress party formed in South Africa (year) | 1 | |
160265214 | 1912 | Fall of Qing dynasty in China; beginning of Chinese Revolution (year) | 2 | |
160265215 | 1914-1918 | World War 1 (duration) | 3 | |
160265216 | 1916 | Arab revolts against Ottomans (year) | 4 | |
160265217 | 1917 | United States enters World War 1 (year) | 5 | |
160265218 | 1917 | Russian Revolution (year) | 6 | |
160265219 | 1917 | Balfour Declaration promises Jews a homeland in Palestine (year) | 7 | |
160265220 | 1919 | Versailles peace settlement; League of Nations (year) | 8 | |
160265221 | 1919 | Revolt in Egypt; first Pan-African Nationalist Congress (year) | 9 | |
160265222 | 1920 | Treaty of Sévres reorganizes Middle East (year) | 10 | |
160265223 | 1921 | Foundation of Chinese Communist party (year) | 11 | |
160265224 | 1927-1928 | Stalin heads Soviet Union; five-year plans and collectivization (duration) | 12 | |
160265225 | 1929-1933 | Height of Great Depression (duration) | 13 | |
160265226 | 1930-1945 | Vargas regime in Brazil (duration) | 14 | |
160265227 | 1931 | Japan invades Manchuria (year) | 15 | |
160265228 | 1931-1947 | Gaandhi-led resistance in India (duration) | 16 | |
160265229 | 1933 | Nazis rise to power in Germany (year) | 17 | |
160265230 | 1933-1939 | New Deal in United States (duration) | 18 | |
160265231 | 1934-1940 | Cárdenas reform period in Mexico (duration) | 19 | |
160265232 | 1935 | German rearmament; Italy conquers Ethiopia (year) | 20 | |
160265233 | 1937 | Army officers in power in Japan; invasion of China (year) | 21 | |
160265234 | 1939-1945 | World War 2 (duration) | 22 | |
160265235 | 1939 | Nazi-Soviet Pact (year) | 23 | |
160265236 | 1941 | United States enters World War 2 (year) | 24 | |
160265237 | 1942-1945 | Holocaust (duration) | 25 | |
160265238 | 1945 | Formation of United Nations (year) | 26 | |
160265239 | 1945 | Atomic bomb (year) | 27 | |
160265240 | 1945 | Communists proclaim Vietnam independence (year) | 28 | |
160265241 | 1945-1948 | Soviet takeover of eastern Europe (duration) | 29 | |
160265242 | 1946 | Philippines proclaim independence (year) | 30 | |
160265243 | 1946-1947 | Decolonization begins, especially in Asia and Oceania (duration) | 31 | |
160265244 | 1947 | Peronism in Argentina (year) | 32 | |
160265245 | 1947 | India and Pakistan gain independence (year) | 33 | |
160265246 | 1947-1975 | Cold War; Marshall Plan (duration) | 34 | |
160265247 | 1948 | Devision of Korea (year) | 35 | |
160265248 | 1948 | Israel-Palestine partition; first Arab-Israeli war (year) | 36 | |
160265249 | 1949 | Formation of NATO (year) | 37 | |
160265250 | 1949 | Communist victory in China (year) | 38 | |
160265251 | 1950-1953 | Korean War (duration) | 39 | |
160265252 | 1950 | End of U.S. occupation in China (year) | 40 | |
160265253 | 1955 | Warsaw Pact (year) | 41 | |
160265254 | 1955 | Bandung conference; nonaligned movement (year) | 42 | |
160265255 | 1956 | Partial end of Stalinism (year) | 43 | |
160265256 | 1957 | European Economic Community (Common Market) (year) | 44 | |
160265257 | 1957 | Ghana becomes first independent African nation (year) | 45 | |
160265258 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution (year) | 46 | |
160265259 | 1960s | Civil rights movement in United States; revival of feminism (decade) | 47 | |
160265260 | 1962 | Algeria declares independence (year) | 48 | |
160265261 | 1965-1973 | U.S. military intervention in Vietnam (duration) | 49 | |
160265262 | 1965-1968 | Cultural revolution in China (duration) | 50 | |
160265263 | 1968-1973 | Student protests in West (duration) | 51 | |
160265264 | 1972, 1979 | Oil crises; height of OPEC power (two years) | 52 | |
160265265 | 1975 | Communist victory in Vietnam (year) | 53 | |
160265266 | 1975-1998 | Democratic regimes spread in Latin America (duration) | 54 | |
160265267 | 1976 | Death of Mao; new reform pattern in China (year) | 55 | |
160265268 | 1979 | Iranian REvolution; spread of Islamic fundamentalism (year) | 56 | |
160265269 | 1980-1988 | Iran-Iraq War (duration) | 57 | |
160265270 | 1985 | Gorbachev heads Soviet Union; reforms and unrest through eastern Europe (year) | 58 | |
160265271 | 1989 | Reform movement in South Africa (year) | 59 | |
160265272 | 1989 | New regimes throughout eastern Europe (year) | 60 | |
160265273 | 1990 | Reunification of Germany (year) | 61 | |
160265274 | 1990-1991 | Iraq invades Kuwait; Persian Gulf crisis; U.S.-Allied defeat of Iraq (duration) | 62 | |
160265275 | 1991 | Collapse of the Soviet Union (year) | 63 | |
160265276 | 1992 | Full economic integration of Common Market (year) | 64 | |
160265277 | 1994 | Palestinian autonomy in Israel; full democracy in South Africa, Nelson Mandela president (year) | 65 | |
160265278 | 1999 | Rise of new conflicts, Palestinians, Israelis (year) | 66 | |
160265279 | 2003 | U.S.-British war with Iraq (year) | 67 |