APWH 1900-2000 By kburlingham24 1910 Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) 1914 World War I (1914-1918) 1917 Russian Revolution 1920 League of Nations (1920-1946) 1921 Founding of Chinese Communist Party 1929 Great Depression begins 1929 Stalin era in Soviet Union (1929-1953) 1933 Nazis come to power in Germany 1945 U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1946 Cold War (1946-1991) 1947 Independence in India, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia (1947-1949) 1950 Korean War (1950-1953) 1957 African independence achieved (1957-1975) 1959 Cuban Revolution; Cuban missile crisis (1959-1962) 1965 Vietnam War (1965-1973) 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran 1990 Reunification of Germany 1991 Collapse of Soviet Union 1993 Formation of the EU 2001 Attacks on World Trade Center