1914-present Flashcards
must know dates for the ap exam
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| 169075390 | 1914-1919 | world war I | 0 | |
| 169075391 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 1 | |
| 169075392 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | 2 | |
| 169075393 | 1929 | stock market crash (beginning of great depression) | 3 | |
| 169075394 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 4 | |
| 169075395 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 5 | |
| 169075396 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 6 | |
| 169075397 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 7 | |
| 169075398 | 1945 | end of WWII | 8 | |
| 169075399 | 1947 | independence and partition of India | 9 | |
| 169075400 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 10 | |
| 169075401 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 11 | |
| 169075402 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 12 | |
| 169075403 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 13 | |
| 169075404 | 1956 | de-stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 14 | |
| 169075405 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 15 | |
| 169075406 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 16 | |
| 169075407 | 1967 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 17 | |
| 169075408 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 18 | |
| 169075409 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 19 | |
| 169075410 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 20 | |
| 169075411 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin wall | 21 | |
| 169075412 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st gulf war | 22 | |
| 169075413 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/first all race elections in South Africa (Nelson Mandela wins) | 23 | |
| 169075414 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 24 |