1900-Present Must Know Dates Flashcards
(31 cards)
1
Q
1905
A
Russo-Japanese War
2
Q
1910-1920
A
Mexican Revolution
3
Q
1911
A
Chinese Revolution
4
Q
1914
A
World War One
5
Q
1917
A
Russian Revolution
6
Q
1919
A
Treaty of Versailles, ends World War One
7
Q
1929
A
Crash of US Stock Market
8
Q
1931
A
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
9
Q
1935
A
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
10
Q
1939
A
German blitzkreig in Poland
11
Q
1941
A
Japan spits on Hawai’i, US enters WWII
12
Q
1945
A
End of WWII
13
Q
1947
A
Independence and Partition of India
14
Q
1948
A
Israel created
15
Q
1949
A
Chinese Communist Revolution
16
Q
1950-1953
A
Korean War
17
Q
1954
A
Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
18
Q
1956
A
De-Stalinization, Nationalization of Suez Canal
19
Q
1959
A
Cuban Revolution
20
Q
1962
A
Cuban Missile Crisis
21
Q
1967
A
Six Day War - Chinese Cultural Revolution
22
Q
1973
A
Yom Kippur War
23
Q
1979
A
Iranian Revolution
24
Q
1987
A
St Palestinian intifada
25
1989
Tienanmen Square - Fall of Berlin Wall
26
1990
Namibia gains independence (last African country to do so)
27
1991
Fall of USSR, first gulf waar
28
1994
Genocide in Rwanda, First all race election in South Africa
29
2001
9/11 in America (of course)
30
2007
Global Great Recession begins
31
2011
Wikileaks, Arab Spring democracy movement
