WHAP dates 1900-2011

Question 1

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 1

1905

Question 2

Mexican Revolution

Answer 2

1910-1920

Question 3

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

Answer 3

1911

Question 4

World War I

Answer 4

1914-1918

Question 5

Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

Answer 5

1917 March

Question 6

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

Answer 6

1917 Oct/Nov

Question 7

Armistice (end of WWI fighting)

Answer 7

1918 Nov

Question 8

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 8

1919

Question 9

Stock market crash

Answer 9

1929

Question 10

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Answer 10

1931

Question 10

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Answer 10

1935

Question 11

Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)

Answer 11

1937

Question 12

German blitzkrieg in Poland

Answer 12

1939

Question 13

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

Answer 13

1941

Question 14

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

Answer 14

1945 Feb

Question 15

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Answer 15

1945 Aug

Question 16

End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

Answer 16

1945 Sept

Question 17

Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War)

Answer 17

1947 June

Question 18

Independence & Partition of India

Answer 18

1947 Aug

Question 19

Birth of Israel

Answer 19

1948

Question 20

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

Answer 20

1948-1949

Question 21

NATO founded

Answer 21

1949 April

Question 22

Chinese Communist Revolution

Answer 22

1949 Oct

Question 23

Korean War

Answer 23

1950-1953

Question 24

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)

Answer 24

1954

Question 25

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)

Answer 25

1955

Question 26

Krushchev begins de-Stalinization

Answer 26

1956 Feb

Question 27

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

Answer 27

1956 Fall

Question 28

Sputnik

Answer 28

1957

Question 29

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

Answer 29

1959

Question 30

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 30

1962

Question 31

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Answer 31

1966-1976

Question 32

6- Day War

Answer 32

1967

Question 33

Yom Kippur War/Opec Oil Embargo

Answer 33

1973

Question 34

Iranian Revolution

Answer 34

1979

Question 35

China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms” (Deng Xiaoping)

Answer 35

1979

Question 36

1st Palestinian Intifada

Answer 36

1987

Question 37

Tiananmen Square

Answer 37

1989 june

Question 38

Fall of Berlin Wall

Answer 38

1989 Nov

Question 39

Namibia gains independence (last African colony)

Answer 39

1990

Question 40

1st Persian Gulf War

Answer 40

1991 jan

Question 41

USSR disbands

Answer 41

1991 Dec

Question 42

Rwandan Genocide

Answer 42

1994 April-July

Question 43

1st all race elections- South Africa

Answer 43

1994 April

Question 44

9/11 Attacks

Answer 44

2001

Question 45

US Invades Iraq

Answer 45

2003

Question 46

Facebook Founded

Answer 46

2004

Question 47

Global “Great Recession” begins

Answer 47

2007

Question 48

Wikileaks, “Arab Spring”

Answer 48

2011