20th Century - Revolutions & Wars By brads651 Jan 1, 1914 World War I starts Jan 1, 1917 World War I ends Oct 1, 1917 Russian Revolution Jan 1, 1919 Mahknovist (anarchist) movement in Ukraine Jan 1, 1919 Failed German Revolution Jan 1, 1924 1924-1930s Internal struggles in USSR Jan 21, 1924 Lenin dies Jan 1, 1929 Trotsky exiled from USSR Oct 29, 1929 Great Depression starts Jan 1, 1933 Hitler takes power in Germany Jan 1, 1936 CPUSA at its peak in 30s Jan 1, 1936 Spanish Civil War / Revolution 1936-39 Jan 1, 1939 1939-45 World War II Jan 1, 1944 CPUSA temporarily dissolves itself into CPA Jan 1, 1945 Eastern European people's democracies formed 1945-49 Aug 6, 1945 US drops nukes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Aug 6 & 9, 1945) Aug 29, 1949 USSR gets nuclear bomb Oct 1, 1949 Chinese revolution Jan 1, 1950 Smith Act Trials vs CPUSA leaders Jan 1, 1950 Korean revolution / war 1950-53 Jan 1, 1953 Stalin dies Jan 1, 1955 African national liberation mvmts (1955-1980) Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam war starts (1955-1975) Ended April 30, 1975 when last U.S. troops leave. Jan 1, 1956 Kruschev's anti-Stalin speech at 20th congress Jan 1, 1959 Cuban revolution Jan 1, 1960 Congo wins independece Jan 1, 1960 Sino-Soviet Split Jan 1, 1961 Berlin Wall built Jan 1, 1961 Patrice Lumumba assassinated (Congo) Jan 1, 1961 Marulanda launches Colombian armed struggle that becomes FARC (1961-present) Oct 1, 1962 Cuban missile crisis Jan 1, 1963 China first public criticism of USSR Jan 1, 1964 China gets nuclear bomb Jan 1, 1966 Chinese Cultural revolution starts Jan 1, 1968 French near revolutionary moment Jan 1, 1968 1968 worldwide revolutionary upsurge Dec 26, 1968 Communist Party of the Philippines reconstituted - people's war launched in 1969 Jan 1, 1973 Amilcar Cabral assassinated (Guinea-Bissau) Jan 1, 1974 Guinea-Bissau wins independence Jan 1, 1975 Mozambique wins independence Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War ends Jan 1, 1976 Chinese Cultural revolution ends Jan 1, 1976 Mao dies Jan 1, 1978 Afghanistan PDPA in power (1978-90) Jan 1, 1979 Iranian revolution Jul 26, 1979 Nicaraguan revolution Dec 24, 1979 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-88) Jan 1, 1980 Grenada revolution (1980-83) Oct 10, 1980 Salvadoran revolutionary mvmt (1980-92) Jan 1, 1981 Chinese 'opening up' starts / verdict reversed on Cultural Revolution Jan 1, 1983 US invades Grenada - overthrows revolution Jan 1, 1986 People's Power movement in Philippines overthrows Marcos dictatorship Jan 1, 1989 Berlin Wall comes down, Eastern European revolutions defeated Nov 1, 1989 US invades Panama Jun 4, 1991 China avoids counterrevolution at Tienanmen Square incident Aug 19, 1991 USSR dissolved Jan 1, 1992 Capture of Gonzalo halts Peruvian revolutionary mvmt Jan 1, 1992 Peace accords in El Salvador, S. Africa, etc Jan 1, 1994 Zapatista uprising in Mexico Jan 1, 1996 Nepal Maoists launch people's war (1996-2006) Jan 1, 1999 Chavez wins power in Venezuela Jan 1, 1999 US overthrows Yugoslavian government Oct 7, 2001 US invades / occupies Afghanistan (2001-present) Jan 1, 2003 US invades Iraq, overthrows govt Jan 1, 2008 Global Economic Crash Jan 1, 2009 Nepali Maoists become ruling party; later split Jan 1, 2009 FMLN wins election in El Salvador, FSLN back in Nicaragua Jan 1, 2011 Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Greece, OWS...