| A | B |
|---|
| The year World War I started | 1914 (World War I 1914-1918) |
| The Treaty of Versailles | 1919 in Paris (The major powers at the conference were Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States) |
| Russo-Japanese War | 1904-1905 (First time in modern history an Asian power defeated a European Power. President Teddy Roosevelt mediated the peace agreement Treaty of Portsmith and received a Noble Peace Prize) ) |
| Russian Revolution | 1917 (led by Vladimir Lenin) |
| Chinese Revolution | 1949 (Led by Mao Zedong, Nationalist government fled to Taiwan) |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 |
| Start of World War II | 1939 (Germany invaded Poland) |
| End of World war II | 1945 |
| Pearl Harbor | 1941 (Japan attacks the US fleet) |
| Great Depression | 1929 (Herbert Hoover was president. Stocks were overvalued) |
| Tet Offensive | 1968 (Vietnam War, Tet is the Vietnamese lunar New Year) |
| Richard Nixon Resigns | 1974 (Due to the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford becomes President) |
| Joseph Stalin Dies | 1953 (Stalin succeeded Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union and built it into an industrial world power) |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 (Turning Point in the Pacific during World War II 4 Japanese aircraft carriers are destroyed) |
| Invasion of Normandy | 1944 (Allied invasion of France called D-Day which was a term from World War I) |
| Spanish Civil War | 1936-1939 (Fascist movement led by General Franco with German and Italian cooperation overthrew a socialist government) |
| Hitler Comes to Power | 1933 (Nazis were in power from 1933-1945) |
| Mussolini comes to power | 1922, Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922 and was deposed in 1943. The Germans installed him as head of a puppet fascist government in central and northern Italy until 1945 |
| Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union conclude a non-aggression pact and agree to divide eastern Europe into spheres of influence. They also agreed to partition Poland. |
| Munich Pact | 1938 Germany was making demands on Czechoslovakia. Major powers met and brokered an agreement which gave the Germans part of the country. Historically this is seen as a surrender to Germany. |
| Women's Right to Vote in the U.S. | 1920 |
| Atomic Bombing | 1945, First test was in July 1945 in New Mexico. August 1945 US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Civil Rights Act | 1964 |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 |
| Moon Landing | 1969, Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins) |
| Assassination of JFK | 1963 (Happened in Dallas, Lyndon Johnson becomes President. The assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald) |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1989 |
| Persian Gulf War | 1990-1991 (Response of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was led by Saddam Hussein) |
| Impeachment of Bill Clinton | 1998 |
| Cold War | 1947-1991 (Fall of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, 16 states take its place) |
| U.S. Invasion of Iraq | 2003 |
| U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan | 2001 |
