World History 1750-present

Mexican revolution

Period: 1910 to 1920

Collapse of Qing dynasty in china

1911

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

1914

World War 1

Period: 1914 to 1918

US joins World War 1

1917

Russian Revolution of 1917

1917

turns Russia into a fully communist nation

Treaty of Versailles

1918

League of Nations established

1920

Kemal Ataturk, secular modernization of Turkey

Period: 1923 to 1938

Great Depression

Period: 1929 to 1939

Stalin Power in Soviet Union

Period: 1929 to 1953

New Deal in US

Period: 1933 to 1950

Italy, German, Japan form axis alliance

Period: 1936 to 1940

World War II

Period: 1937 to 1945

Hitler invades Poland (start of WW2)

1939

The Holocaust

Period: 1939 to 1945

Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor

1941

Germany invaded Russia

1941

Broke non-aggression pact

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1945

Official German surrender (end of ww2)

1945

Bretton Woods System established

1945

World Bank, IMF

Winston "iron curtain" speech

1946

Marshall Plan Announced

1947

India independence from Britain is gained

1947

led by ghandi
split into Pakistan and India

Cold War

Period: 1947 to 1991

Mao Zedong takes control of China

1949

Communist control established

Nato established

1949

CCP comes to power

1949

Korean War

Period: 1950 to 1953

Vietnam/Indochina independence from France

1954

Algerian independence from French

Period: 1954 to 1958

Warsaw Pact

1955

Vietnam War

Period: 1955 to 1975

proxy war

Ghana gains independence from Britain

1957

Cuban Missle Crisis

1962

Aswam Dam was built in Egypt

1970

Nassar used help from soviets because US could not help

Afghanistan War

Period: 1978 to 1980

Deng Xiaoping Reforms in China

Period: 1978 to 1989

Iranian Revolution

1979

Gorbachev's Reforms in Russia

1987

Collapse of Eastern European Communism

1989

USSR official Dismantled

1991

End of Apartheid in South Africa

1994

WTO established

1995