1900-PRESENT

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  • Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

  • Partition of India

  • JJapan makes 21 demands on China

  • Gallipoli campaign

  • German resumption unrestricted submarine warfare

  • Bolshevik Revolution

  • Civil war in Russia

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • Paris Peace Conference

  • First meeting of the League of Nations

  • Lenin's Economic Policy

  • Ataturk Proclaims Republic of Turkey

  • First Soviet Five- Year Plan

  • US stock market crash

  • Civil disobedience movement in India

  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

  • Hitler is ruler in Germany

  • Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua

  • Long March by Chinese Communists

  • Mussolini launches fascist movement

  • Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR

  • Invasion of China by Japan

  • German Anschluss with Austria

  • Invasion of Poland by German

  • German invasion of USSR

  • Soviet victory at Stalingrad

  • D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy

  • Capture of Berlin by Soviet forces

  • Division of Berlin and German

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Establishment of United Nation

  • Arab–Israeli War

  • Creation of Israel

  • Apartheid in South Africa

  • Establishment of NATO

  • Establishment of People's Republic of China

  • Korean War

  • Algerian war of Liberation

  • Establishment of Warsaw Pact

  • US troops in Vietnam

  • Uprising in Hungary

  • Suez crisis

  • Great leap forward in China

  • Castro comes to power in Cuba

  • Construction of Berlin Wall

  • Creation of PLO

  • Revolution in Iran

  • Iran–Iraq War

  • Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

  • Persian Gulf War

  • Reunification of Germany

  • Collapse of USSR

  • Transfer of Hong Kong to China

  • Uprisings in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan