AP World History Must Know Dates: 1900-Present

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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)


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