Period 6 Timeline By mxxa.e 1997 BCE Transfer of British Hong Kong to China 1991 BCE Collapse of USSR 1990 BCE Persian Gulf War 1990 BCE Reunification of Germany 1989 BCE Soviet Withdrawal from Apghanistan 1980 BCE Iran-Iraq War 1978 BCE Revolution in Iran 1964 BCE Creation of PLO 1961 BCE Construction of Berlin Wall 1961 BCE US troops in Vietnam 1960 BCE Sino-soviet Rift 1959 BCE Castro Comes to Power in Cuba 1958 BCE Great Leap Forward in China 1956 BCE Suez Crisis 1956 BCE Uprising in Hungary 1955 BCE Establishment of Warsaw Pact 1954 BCE Algerian War of Liberation 1954 BCE French Defeat at Dien Bien Phu 1950 BCE Korean War 1949 BCE Establishment of NATO 1949 BCE Establishment of People's Republic of China 1948 BCE Apartheid in South Africa 1948 BCE Arab-Israeli War 1948 BCE Creation of Israel 1948 BCE Division of Berlin and German 1947 BCE Partition of India 1945 BCE Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 BCE Capture of Berlin and Soviet Forces 1945 BCE Establishment of United Nations 1944 BCE D-Day, Allied Invasion of Normandy 1942 BCE Soviet victory of Stalingrad 1941 BCE German Invasion of USSR 1939 BCE Invasion of Poland by Germany 1938 BCE Cardenas nationalized oil industry in Mexico 1938 BCE German Anschluss with Austria 1937 BCE Invasion of China by Japan 1936 BCE Stalin's "Great Purge" 1934 BCE Hitler is Ruler in Germany 1934 BCE Long March by Chinese Communists 1931 BCE Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1930 BCE Civil Disobedient Movement in India 1929 BCE US Stock Market Crash 1928 BCE First Soviet 5 Year Plan 1923 BCE Ataturk Proclaims Republic of Turkey 1921 BCE Lenin's New Economic Policy 1920 BCE First Meeting League of Nations 1919 BCE Mussolini Launches 1919 BCE Paris Peace Conference 1918 BCE Civil War in Russia 1918 BCE Treaty of Brest-Livosk 1917 BCE Bolshevik Revolution 1915 BCE Gallipoli Campaign 1915 BCE German Resemption 1915 BCE Japan 21 Demands 1915 BCE May Fourth 1914 BCE Assassination of Archduke Period: 1914 BCE to 1997 BCE Period 6 Timeline Mar 31, 1948 Apartheid in South Africa