1900-1950 Flashcards
(24 cards)
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown)
1905
Russo-Japanese war
1911
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
1914-1918
World War I
1917 March
Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates)
1917 Oct/Nov
Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)
1918 Nov
Armistice (end of WWI fighting)
1919
Treaty of Versailles
1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war)
1929
Stock market crash
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1937
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1941
Pearl Harbor, entry of U.S. Into WWII
1945 Feb
Yalta Conference (beginning of Cold War?)
1945 Aug
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
1945 Sept
End of WWII (Japan surrenders)
1947 June
Truman Doctrine (“official” declaration of Cold War)
1947 Aug
Independence and partition of India
1948
Birth of Israel
1948-49
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
1949 Apr
NATO founded
1949 Oct
Chinese Communist Revolution