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APW 1914-present
Ap World History - Summerville High School
Date | Event |
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1914 | WWI |
1917 | Russian Revolution |
1919 | Treaty of Versailles; end of WWI |
1929 | stock market crash |
1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia |
1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland |
1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII |
1945 | end of WWII |
1947 | independence & partition of India |
1948 | birth of Israel |
1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution |
1950to 1953 | Korean War |
1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu |
1956 | deStalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal |
1959 | Cuban Revolution |
1962 | Cuban missile crisis |
1967 | 6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution |
1973 | Yom Kippur war |
1979 | Iranian Revolution |
1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada |
1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall |
1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war |
1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S.Africa |
2001 | 9/11 Attacks |