20th and 21st Centuries By dotoole_1021 Period: 1899 to 1902 Second Anglo-Boer War Period: 1899 to 1901 Boxer Rebellion Period: Feb 8, 1904 to Sep 5, 1905 Russo-Japanese War 1911 Xinhai Revolution Period: 1912 to 1913 Balkan Wars Apr 15, 1912 Sinking of the Titanic Apr 20, 1914 Ludlow Massacre Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War I Period: 1915 to 1917 Armenian Genocide Period: 1917 to 1922 Russian Civil War Period: 1919 to 1921 The Irish War of Independence Period: May 19, 1919 to Oct 29, 1923 Turkish War of Independence 1920 Women's Suffrage Vote Period: 1922 to 1923 The Irish Civil War Period: 1927 to 1950 Chinese Civil War Period: Oct 29, 1929 to 1939 The Great Depression Period: 1934 to 1935 Long March Period: 1935 to 1936 Second Italo-Ethiopian War Period: 1936 to 1939 Spanish Civil War Dec 11, 1936 Abdication of King Edward VIII of England May 6, 1937 Hindenburg Disaster Jul 7, 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War II Period: 1941 to May 8, 1945 The Holocaust Period: 1946 to 1949 Greek Civil War 1947 Roswell UFO Incident Period: 1947 to 1991 Cold War Aug 15, 1947 Indian Indpendence Aug 15, 1947 Partition of India Period: 1948 to 1960 The Malayan Emergency Period: 1950 to 1953 The Korean War Period: 1952 to 1960 Mau Mau Uprising Period: 1954 to 1968 Civil Rights Movement Period: 1955 to 1975 The Space Race Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War 1956 Suez Crisis 1957 Sputnik 1 Period: 1960 to 1970 The Beatles Active 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Period: 1963 to 1967 The Aden Emergency Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assassination 1968 Prague Spring Period: 1968 to 1998 The Troubles Jul 16, 1969 Apollo 11 Period: 1975 to 1979 Cambodian Genocide Period: 1978 to 1979 Iranian Revolution Period: 1978 to 1989 Soviet War in Afghanistan Period: Dec 25, 1978 to Sep 26, 1989 Cambodian-Vietnamese War Period: 1982 to 2000 South Lebanon Conflict Period: Apr 2, 1982 to Jun 14, 1982 The Falklands War Jan 1, 1983 Invention of the Internet Feb 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Apr 26, 1986 Chernobyl Disaster 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall Period: 1990 to 1991 The Gulf War Oct 3, 1990 Reunification of Germany Period: 1991 to 1995 Croatian War of Independence Dec 26, 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union Period: 1992 to 1995 The Bosnian War 1994 Rwandan Genocide 1995 Bosnian Genocide Aug 31, 1997 Death of Princess Diana of Wales Period: 1998 to 1999 The Kosovo War Period: 2001 to 2013 The Global War on Terrorism Period: 2001 to 2014 The War in Afghanistan Sep 11, 2001 September 11th Attacks Period: 2003 to 2011 The Iraq War and Insurgency Oct 21, 2003 My Day of Birth! Definitely most important thing on here not gonna lie
