AP World History Must Know Dates: 1900-Present
1967
6-Day War
2001
9/11 Attacks
November 1918
Armistice (end of WW1 fighting)
1955
Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)
1948-1949
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
November 1961-1989
Berlin Wall
1948
Birth of Israel
1979
China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms (Deng Xiaoping)
October 1949
Chinese Communist Revolution
1966-1976
Chinese Cultural Revolution
1911
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1959
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)
September 1945
End of World War Two (Japan surrenders)
2004
Facebook founded
1987
First Palestinian Intifada
January 1991
First Persian Gulf War
April 1994
First all race elections in South Africa
April-July 1994
Genocide in Rwanda
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
2007
Global "Great Recession" begins
August 1945
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
August 1947
Independence and partition of India
1979
Iranian Revolution
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1937
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1928
Kellog-Briand Pact (outlawing war)
1950-1953
Korean War
February 1956
Krushchev begins de-Stalinization
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown)
April 1949
NATO founded
1990
Namibia gains independence (last African colony)
Fall 1956
Nationalization of Suez Canal
1941
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into World War Two
1905
Ruso-Japanese War
October/November 1917
Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)
March 1917
Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates)
1957
Sputnik
1929
Stock market crash
June 1989
Tiananmen Square
1919
Treaty of Versailles
June 1947
Truman Doctrine ("official" decl of Cold War)
2003
US invades Iraq ("Enduring Freedom")
December 1991
USSR Disbands
1954
Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)
2011
Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy
1914-1918
World War One
February 1945
Yalta Conference (beginning of Cold War?)
1973
Yom Kippur War (OPEC Oil Embargo)