Download 20th century timeline

• TIMELINE
TIMELINE
1919-1939
1920S
1920
1921
Vl. Contemporary
United States-backed revolt in Panama; independence from Colombia
Russo-Japanese War
Revolution in Russia; peasant reforms and
Duma
Annexation of Korea by Japan; first use of assembly-line production in the United States
Mexican Revolution
Chinese Revolution, fall of the last (Q'ing)
dynasty; occupation of Morocco by France;
takeover of Tripoli (present-day Libya) by
Italy
1912-1913
1914-1918
1915ff.
1918
1918-1919
1919
Two Balkan wars
World War I
Rise of Arab nationalism, encouraged during
World War I
Russian Revolution, abolition of the czarist
regime, Bolshevik victory; promulgation of
Balfour Declaration, promising Jewish
homeland in Palestine
Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
End of German Empire, Habsburg Empire
Paris Peace Conference (Versailles), founding
of League of Nations; British colonial reforms in India, limited representative government; first meeting of Pan-African Congress, rise of African nationalism
1930
1931
1933-1944
1934
1937
1937-1938
1939-I945
1940ff.
1941
1945
1945-1948
1947ff.
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Period of u.s. isolationism
Rise of fascism
Beginning of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent
movement in India
Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy
promulgated; formation of Chinese communist movement
Independent Turkey created by Ataturk, beginning of modernization drive; rise of independent Persia under Shah Riza Khan
Joseph Stalin in full power; beginning of collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet
Union
Worldwide economic depression
Import substitution experiments in Latin
America; Hollywood in United States becomes dominant movie-producing location
First Soccer World Cup played in Uruguay
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Nazi regime in Germany
"Long March" led by Mao Tse-tung in China
New Japanese attack on China
"Great Purge" conducted by Stalin
World \Var II
Rise of women in industrial labor force;
Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia
Pearl Harbor attacked
Atomic bomb dropped on Japan; United
Nations established
Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe
Cold war begun between United States and
Soviet Union; decolonization, rise of new
nations
Full control of South African government
gained by Afrikaners' independence from
Britain and extension of apartheid
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1949
Communist victory in China; formation of
NATO
1950S
India, China engage in import-substitution
industrialization; television becomes dominant entertainment media
Completion of independence of Arab states
End of French war against Vietnamese nationalists and communists; independence
and division of Vietnam
First meeting of nonaligned nations; formation of Warsaw Pact
China's "Great Leap Forward" industrialization attempt; Hungarian revolt and its
suppression
Israeli-Arab wars
1955
1956, 1967, 1973
1957
1959-1960
1960s
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1970S
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1914-
Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, launched
by Soviet Union, beginning the "space age"
Independence to most of black Africa
Founding of the European Economic Community (Common Market)
Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba
Mao's Cultural Revolution
Independence achieved by most West Indies
territories
Beginning of authoritarian rule under Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines; military coup in
Indonesia
Nigerian civil war
Revolt in Czechoslovakia and its repression;
widespread student protests in United States
and Western Europe
Mexico, Central America, and "Asian
Tigers"-South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia,
Thailand-industrialize
through assembly
plants; rise of Muslim fundamentalism in the
Middle East; introduction of the microchip
1971
1973
1973-1979
1977
1979
1980s
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1981f£
1986
1989-1991
1990S
1994
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computer; gradual reduction of birthrate in
most parts of the world
Revolt in Pakistan; creation of independent
Bangladesh
End of Vietnam War
Increase in world energy prices promoted by
OPEC
Death of Mao; more pragmatic regime in
China
Egyptian- Israeli peace
Iranian Revolution
Personal computers introduced on massive
scale for business, pleasure
New democratic current in Latin America
Iran- Iraq War
Fall of Marcos regime in the Philippines
Collapse of Soviet Union; new regimes
in Eastern Europe, Central Asia; end of
cold war
Internet becomes prominent; spread of some
democratic regimes in Africa
Nelson Mandela elected president of South
Africa
Mexico City becomes world's largest city
World population tops 6 billion
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