Most Important Events in the XXth Century

Madero arrives to power

Nov 5, 1911

Mexico City, Mexico

Assassination of Madero

Feb 21, 1913

Palacio de Lecumberri, Mexico City, Mexico

Beginning of WW1

Jul 27, 1914

Europe

Socialist Russian Revolution

Jan 31, 1917

Russia

Publication of the 14 points of Woodrow Wilson

Jan 7, 1918

USA-Europe

End of WWI

Nov 10, 1918

Europe

Beginning of the government of Obregón

Nov 30, 1920

Mexico

Benito Mussolini assumes power

Oct 30, 1922

Italy

Beginning of Cristero Movement

Dec 31, 1925

Mexico

1st govenment of the "Maximato"

Nov 30, 1928

Mexico

Stalin arrives to power

Apr 2, 1929

Moscow, USSR

Beginning of the Great Depression

Oct 28, 1929

United States of America

Hitler arrives to power

Jan 29, 1933

Berlin, Germany

Beginning of the government of Cardenas

Nov 30, 1934

Mexico

Beginning of WW2

Aug 31, 1939

Europe

Beginning of the Chinese Revolution of Mao Zedong

Dec 31, 1945

China

Formation of the state of Israel

May 13, 1948

Asia

Berlin Blockade

Jun 23, 1948

West Berlin, Germany

Beginning of the Korean War

Jun 24, 1950

North Korea

Truman arrives to power

Jan 4, 1952

USA

Soviet occupation of Hungary

Nov 3, 1956

Hungary

Beginnig of the participation of the United States in the Vietnam War

Dec 31, 1960

South Vietnam

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 15, 1962

Cuba

Prague Spring

Jan 4, 1968

Czechoslovakia

Masacre in Tlatelolco

Oct 1, 1968

Mexico

Latin American Debt

Dec 31, 1974

Latin America

Ronald Reagen arrives to power

Jan 19, 1981

USA

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 8, 1989

Berlin, West/ East Germany