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AP World - Chrono Qz
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| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| 2001 | The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks set a new era of war on terror. |
| 1980s & 1990s | The Digital Revolution begins with the advent of the internet. |
| 1979 | The Islamic Revolution in Iran begins. |
| 1960s | The Green Revolution begins. |
| 1949 | The Chinese Communist Revolution triumphs; the Nationalist Party flees to Taiwan. |
| 1948 | Founding of Israel on British-occupied Palestine begins a new era of enduring ethnic conflict. |
| 1947 | India's independence from Britain marks the start of the Age of Decolonization in Africa & Asia. |
| 1941–1945 | Six million Jews are murdered in the Holocaust; WWII ends with U.S. atomic bombings on Japan. |
| 1937 + 1939 | WWII begins in East Asia with Japan’s invasion of Nanking, and in Europe with Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland. |
| 1933 | Soviet leader Josef Stalin wages genocide against Ukraine in the Holodomor. |
| 1929 | The Great Depression causes dramatic worldwide socio-economic shifts. |
| 1927 | The Chinese Civil War begins between Communists and Nationalists. |
| 1919 | The Treaty of Versailles formally ends WWI. |
| 1917 | The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia establishes the world’s first communist state. |
| 1914 | World War I erupts; the USA emerges as a global superpower by 1918. |
| 1911 | The Xinhai Revolution ends Qing Dynasty rule in China. |
| 1905 | Russo-Japanese War signals rise of Japanese imperialism in Korea. |
| 1900 | The failed Boxer Rebellion intensifies European imperialism in China. |
| 1895 | The First Sino-Japanese War begins Japanese imperialism in China. |
| 1890 | "Manifest Destiny" ends as the USA secures the Pacific West Coast. |
| 1884 | The Berlin Conference begins European imperialism in Africa. |
| 1868 | The Meiji Restoration begins Japan’s modernization. |
| 1858 | Darwin’s On the Origin of Species inspires Social Darwinism. |
| 1857 | Sepoy Rebellion sparks British takeover of India. |
| 1850 | The Taiping Rebellion weakens the Qing Dynasty. |
| 1838 | Britain defeats China in the Opium Wars. |
| 1776–1821 | First Wave of Revolutions makes the Americas independent of European rule (slavery abolished by 1888). |
| 1689 | The Glorious Revolution spurs the European Enlightenment. |
| 1666 | The Kongo Civil War weakens African resistance to European colonization. |
| 1644 | The Qing Dynasty replaces the Ming Dynasty. |
| 1619 | Transatlantic slavery begins in North America. |
| 1550 | The Russian Empire expands eastward into Siberia. |
| 1543 | The European Scientific Revolution begins. |
| 1526 | Transatlantic slave trade begins in South America; Mughal Empire begins in India. |
| 1517 | Protestant Reformation disrupts Catholic dominance in Europe. |
| 1492 | Columbus encounters the Arawak in the Americas. |
| 1490* | Spanish Reconquista ends with the capture of Granada (Jan 2, 1493). |
| 1469 | Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, is born. |
| 1453 | The Ottoman Empire conquers Byzantium. |
| 1452–1493 | The Vatican issues the "Doctrine of Discovery" justifying colonial expansion. |
| 1368 | The Ming Dynasty replaces the Yuan Dynasty. |
| 1346 | The Black Death devastates Europe and Eurasia. |
| 1271 | Mongols invade the Song Dynasty. |
| 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate. |
| 1242 | Mongols invade Kyivan Rus. |
| 600s CE | Islam begins. |
| Year 0 | Christianity emerges and spreads. |
| 400s BCE | Buddhism begins. |
| 500s BCE | Confucianism begins. |
| 1500 BCE | Judaism begins. |
| 2300–1500 BCE | Hinduism develops. |
| 1492 - 1775 | First Wave of Globalization in form of European Imperialism in the North & South America |
| 1750 - 1910's | The Industrial Revolution begins in England and spreads throughout Europe and North America |
| 1946 | The Cold War begins between the Soviet Union & the United States |
| 1950 - 1991 | The Korean War marks a new era of Cold War-proxy wars throughout the world until collapse of Soviet Union |
| 1947 - 1989 | India’s independence from Britain marks the start of AGE OF DECOLONIZATION from European empires & influence in Africa & Asia. |
| 1215 | Magna Carta written and signed |