1914-Present By facebooker_100000077726708 Jun 6, 1914 Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand Jun 6, 1914 German Resumption of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Period: Jun 6, 1914 to Jun 6, 1919 World War I Jun 6, 1915 Japan makes Twenty-one Demands on China Jun 6, 1915 Gallipoli Campaign Jun 6, 1917 Bolshevik Revolution Period: Jun 6, 1917 to Jun 6, 1923 Civil War in Russia Jun 6, 1918 Treaty of Bret-Litovsk Jun 6, 1919 Paris Peace Conference Jun 6, 1919 Mussolini Launches Fascist Movement in Italy Jun 6, 1919 May Fourth Movement in China Jun 6, 1920 First Meeting of the League of Nations Period: Jun 6, 1921 to Jun 6, 1928 Lenin's New Economic Policy Jun 6, 1923 Ataturk Proclaims Republic of Turkey Period: Jun 6, 1928 to Jun 6, 1933 First Soviet Five-Year Plan Jun 6, 1929 US Stock Market Crash Jun 6, 1930 Civil Disobedience Movement in India Period: Jun 6, 1933 to Jun 6, 1945 Hitler Rules Germany Jun 6, 1934 Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua Jun 6, 1934 Long March by Chinese Communists Period: Jun 6, 1935 to Jun 6, 1938 Stalin's Great Purge Jun 6, 1937 Invasion of China by Japan Jun 6, 1938 German Auschluss with Austria Jun 6, 1938 Cardenas Nationalizes Oil Industry in Mexico Jun 6, 1939 Invasion of Poland by Germany Jun 6, 1941 Germany Invasion of the Soviet Union Jun 6, 1943 Soviet victory at Stalingrad Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jun 6, 1945 Establishment of United Nation Jun 6, 1945 Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Jun 6, 1945 Capture of Berlin by Soviet Forces Jun 6, 1947 Partition of India Jun 6, 1948 Creation of Israel Period: Jun 6, 1948 to Jun 6, 1989 Apartheid in South Africa Jun 6, 1949 Establishment of the People's Republic of China Jun 6, 1949 Establishment of NATO Jun 6, 1949 Division of Berlin and Germany Period: Jun 6, 1949 to Jun 6, 1982 Arab-Israeli War Jun 6, 1950 US Troops in Vietnam Period: Jun 6, 1950 to Jun 6, 1953 Korean War Jun 6, 1954 French Defeat at Dienbienphu Period: Jun 6, 1954 to Jun 6, 1962 Algerian War of Liberation Jun 6, 1956 Suez Crisis Jun 6, 1956 Uprising in Hungary Period: Jun 6, 1958 to Jun 6, 1961 Great Leap Foward in China Jun 6, 1959 Castro Comes to power in Cuba Jun 6, 1959 Cuban Missle Crisis Jun 6, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall Jun 6, 1964 Creation of Palestine Liberation Organization Period: Jun 6, 1965 to Jun 6, 1973 US Troops in Vietnam Jun 6, 1967 6 day war/ Chinese Cultural Revolution Jun 6, 1973 Yom Kippur War Jun 6, 1979 Iranian Revolution Period: Jun 6, 1980 to Jun 6, 1988 Iran - Iraq War Period: Jun 6, 1986 to Jun 6, 1989 Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan Jun 6, 1989 Tiananmen Square/ fall of Berlin Wall Jun 6, 1990 Reunification of Germany Period: Jun 6, 1990 to Jun 6, 1991 Persian Gulf War Jun 6, 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union Jun 6, 1991 Collapse of USSR Jun 6, 1994 genocide in Rwanda; first all race elections in South Africa Jun 6, 1997 Transfer of British Hong Kong to People's Republic of China Jun 6, 2001 9/11