AP World History Dates 1900-Present Flashcards
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378731689 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 0 | |
378731690 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 1 | |
378731691 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution | 2 | |
378731692 | 1914 | World WarI | 3 | |
378731693 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 4 | |
378731694 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles end of WWI | 5 | |
378731695 | 1929 | Stock Market Crash | 6 | |
378731696 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 7 | |
378731697 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 8 | |
378731698 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 9 | |
378731699 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 10 | |
378731700 | 1945 | End of WWII | 11 | |
378731701 | 1947 | Independence & Partition of India | 12 | |
378731702 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 13 | |
378731703 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 14 | |
378731704 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 15 | |
378731705 | 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 16 | |
378731706 | 1956 | de-Stalinization / Nationalization of Suez Canal | 17 | |
378731707 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 18 | |
378731708 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis | 19 | |
378731709 | 1967 | 6-Day War / Chinese Cultural Revolution | 20 | |
378731710 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 21 | |
378731711 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 22 | |
378731712 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square / Fall of Berlin Wall | 23 | |
378731713 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so) | 24 | |
378731714 | 1991 | Fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War | 25 | |
378731715 | 1994 | Genocide in Rwanda / 1st all race elections in South Africa | 26 | |
378731716 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 27 | |
378731717 | 2007 | Global "Great Recession" begins | 28 | |
378731718 | 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy movement | 29 |