388534749 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 0 | |
388534750 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 1 | |
388534751 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 2 | |
388534752 | 1914 | World War I | 3 | |
388534753 | 1917 | Russian Rev | 4 | |
388534754 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles end of WWI | 5 | |
388534755 | 1929 | stock market crash | 6 | |
388534756 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 7 | |
388534757 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 8 | |
388534758 | 1937 | Japanese invasion of (rest of) China | 9 | |
388534759 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 10 | |
388534760 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 11 | |
388534761 | 1945 | end of WWII | 12 | |
388534762 | 1947 | independence + partition of India | 13 | |
388534763 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 14 | |
388534764 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Rev | 15 | |
388534765 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 16 | |
388534766 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 17 | |
388534767 | 1956 | de-Stalinization/ Nat'lization of Suez Canal | 18 | |
388534768 | 1959 | Cuban Rev | 19 | |
388534769 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 20 | |
388534770 | 1967 | 6 Day War/ Chinese Cultural Rev | 21 | |
388534771 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 22 | |
388534772 | 1979 | Iranian Rev | 23 | |
388534773 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 24 | |
388534774 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall | 25 | |
388534775 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so) | 26 | |
388534776 | 1991 | fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War | 27 | |
388534777 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in S Africa | 28 | |
388534778 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 29 | |
388534779 | 2007 | global "Great Recession" begins | 30 | |
388534780 | 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy movement | 31 |
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