The Americas

East Asia

Eurasia and North Africa

Southern Africa

• U.S. enters WWI; Zimmermann Telegram (1917) 
• Red Scare; communism (1919-1920)
• 19th amendment; women's suffrage (1920)

• WWI was occurring without much influence reaching East Asia besides the few skirmishes between Russian and Japanese troops over main land territory (1914-1920) 

• WWI bgins with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1914-1918)
• Tsar Nicholas abdicates throne of Russia; Lenin's rise in Russia (1917)
• Armistace Day; fighting ends (1918)
• Treaty of Versailles signed; German guilt clause controversial (1919)

• WWI Battles fought on colonial African lands (1914- 1918)
• British martial law in Cairo (1916)
• Imperialsm of African lands by European powers (upto 1970s) 
• Pan- African Conference (1919- 1945)
• Gandhi boycotted Indian treatment in South Africa (1914)

•  Prohibition (1920-  1933)

• Formation of the Chinese Communist Party (1921) 

• Rise of USSR, Lenin, Stalin, etc. October Revolution, February Revolution in Russia; Communist takeover in Russia; start of proxy wars with U.S. (1920- 1941) 
• Stalin industrializes Russia; two 5- year plans (1922)
• Mussolini takes power in Italy (1922)

• Great Depression (1930s) 

• Siam reforms governmant and renames country to Thailand (1932) 

• Economic Depression (1930s)
• Saudi Arabia Unified finally (1932)
• Hitler elected Chancellor of Germany (1933)
• Germany invades Poland; Britain declares war on Germany; ignites WWII and Holocaust(1939) 

• Rise in gold prices due to Great Depression (1930s) 

• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters WWII (1941) 
• D-Day (1941)
• WWII ends; Victory over Japan Day (1945)
• Truman Doctorine against communism around the world (1947)
• NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization established (1949)

• WWII begins and much of the fighting occurs in South East Asia, along the islands (upto 1945) 
• Japan grows into an Imperalist power under Emperor Hirohito (upto 1945)
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed with atom bombs (1945)
• US reforms Japanese government; gets rid of emperor after VJ Day (1945)
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945- 1976)
• Foundation of the People's Republic of China; rise of Mao Zedong (1949)

• WWII ends; Rise of Soviet Union (1945)
• Marshall Plan; help re-build Europe with aid from USA (1947) 
• Iran Liberated (1941)
• Lebanon Liberated (1943)
• Syria Liberated (1944)
• Jordan Liberated (1946)
• Iraq Liberated (1947)
• Egypt Liberated (1947)

• End of WWII eventually led to the end of Colonialism (1945- onward) 

• Korean War (1950- 1953)
• Che Guevara and Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba; communist regime (1959)
• Vietnam War (1959-1973) 

• Vietnam War (1959- 1973) 
• Mao's Great Leap Forward (1958)

• Libya gains Independence (1951)
• Egypt gains Independence (1953)

• Sudan gains Independence (1956)
• Ghana gains Independence (1957) 

• Bay of Pigs conflict in Cuba (1961)
• Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) 

• Anti- apartheid movements in South Africa (1960s) 
• Ugandan Genocide (1962)

• Watergate scandal; Nixon resigns (1974) 

• Four Modernizations (1975) 

• Saddam Hussein takes over in Iraq (1979- 2006) 
• Iranian Revolution; overthrow of the Shah and Ayatollah comes to power (1979)

• Tiananmen Square protests (1989)

• Berlin Wall comes down (1989) 
• Iran-Iraq War (1980- 1988)

• AIDS epidemic in Africa (1980s) 

• Persian Gulf War (1991) 

• Collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) 
• European Union formed (1993)

• Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa; end of apartheid (1994) 
• Rwandan Genocide (1994)
• Somalian conflict with U.S. intervention (1996)

• World Trade Center attacked (9/11 2001)
• U.S. invades Iraq; Bush doctorine (2003) 

• U.S. invades Iraq; Bush doctorine (2003)