AP World History Dates 1900-Present
1967
6-Day War / Chinese Cultural Revolution
2001
9/11 Attacks
1948
Birth of Israel
1949
Chinese Communist Revolution
1911
Chinese Revolution
1959
Cuban Revolution
1962
Cuban missile crisis
1945
End of WWII
1991
Fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War
1994
Genocide in Rwanda / 1st all race elections in South Africa
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
2007
Global "Great Recession" begins
1947
Independence & Partition of India
1979
Iranian Revolution
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1950-1953
Korean War
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
1990
Namibia gains independence (last African colony to do so)
1941
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
1917
Russian Revolution
1905
Russo-Japanese War
1929
Stock Market Crash
1989
Tiananmen Square / Fall of Berlin Wall
1919
Treaty of Versailles end of WWI
1954
Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
2011
Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy movement
1914
World WarI
1973
Yom Kippur War
1956
de-Stalinization / Nationalization of Suez Canal