1900-Present Flashcards

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