1900-PRESENT By mdavy Jun 14, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand Aug 14, 1914 Partition of India Jan 18, 1915 JJapan makes 21 demands on China Apr 25, 1915 Gallipoli campaign Feb 1, 1917 German resumption unrestricted submarine warfare Nov 7, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution Feb 1, 1918 Civil war in Russia Mar 3, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Jan 18, 1919 Paris Peace Conference Jan 16, 1920 First meeting of the League of Nations Mar 21, 1921 Lenin's Economic Policy Oct 29, 1923 Ataturk Proclaims Republic of Turkey Oct 1, 1928 First Soviet Five- Year Plan Oct 1, 1929 US stock market crash May 5, 1930 Civil disobedience movement in India Sep 19, 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria Jan 30, 1933 Hitler is ruler in Germany Feb 21, 1934 Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua Oct 1, 1934 Long March by Chinese Communists Jan 1, 1935 Mussolini launches fascist movement Sep 1, 1936 Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR Jul 7, 1937 Invasion of China by Japan Apr 12, 1938 German Anschluss with Austria Sep 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland by German Jun 22, 1941 German invasion of USSR Aug 23, 1942 Soviet victory at Stalingrad Jun 6, 1944 D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy Apr 16, 1945 Capture of Berlin by Soviet forces Jul 17, 1945 Division of Berlin and German Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Oct 24, 1945 Establishment of United Nation May 14, 1948 Arab–Israeli War May 14, 1948 Creation of Israel May 27, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa Apr 4, 1949 Establishment of NATO Oct 1, 1949 Establishment of People's Republic of China Jun 25, 1950 Korean War Nov 1, 1954 Algerian war of Liberation May 14, 1955 Establishment of Warsaw Pact Nov 1, 1955 US troops in Vietnam Oct 23, 1956 Uprising in Hungary Oct 29, 1956 Suez crisis Jan 1, 1958 Great leap forward in China Feb 16, 1959 Castro comes to power in Cuba Aug 13, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall May 28, 1964 Creation of PLO Jan 1, 1978 Revolution in Iran Sep 22, 1980 Iran–Iraq War May 15, 1988 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Aug 2, 1990 Persian Gulf War Oct 3, 1990 Reunification of Germany Dec 25, 1991 Collapse of USSR Jul 1, 1997 Transfer of Hong Kong to China Apr 3, 2010 Uprisings in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan