1900-Present Must Know Dates Flashcards
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| 282028982 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 0 | |
| 282028983 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 1 | |
| 282028984 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 2 | |
| 282028985 | 1914 | WWI | 3 | |
| 282028986 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 4 | |
| 282028987 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles end of WWI | 5 | |
| 282028988 | 1929 | U.S. stock market crash | 6 | |
| 282028989 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 7 | |
| 282028990 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 8 | |
| 282028991 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 9 | |
| 282028992 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 10 | |
| 282028993 | 1945 | end of WWII | 11 | |
| 282028994 | 1947 | independence & partition of India | 12 | |
| 282028995 | 1948 | birth of Israel | 13 | |
| 282028996 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 14 | |
| 282028997 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 15 | |
| 282028998 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 16 | |
| 282028999 | 1956 | De-Stalinization/Nat'lization of Suez Canal | 17 | |
| 282029000 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 18 | |
| 282029001 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 19 | |
| 282029002 | 1967 | 6-Day War/ Chinese Cultural Revolution | 20 | |
| 282029003 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war | 21 | |
| 282029004 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 22 | |
| 282029005 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 23 | |
| 282029006 | 1989 | Tienanmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 24 | |
| 282029007 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so) | 25 | |
| 282029008 | 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 26 | |
| 282029009 | 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa | 27 | |
| 282029010 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 28 | |
| 282029011 | 2007 | Global "Great Recession" begins | 29 | |
| 282029012 | 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy Movement | 30 |