World Period Six Timeline Exercise

correct incorrect Oil discovered in Middle East

correct incorrect Revolution in China; fall of Qing Dynasty

correct incorrect World War I

correct incorrect Bolshevik Revolution in Russia; USSR founded in 1922

correct incorrect Versailles Treaty; founding of League of Nations

correct incorrect Stock market crash; Great Depression

correct incorrect World War II in China, the Pacific, and (from 1939) Europe

correct incorrect Nazi Final Solution against Europe's Jews implemented

correct incorrect Indian and Pakistani independence

correct incorrect State of Israel founded; first Arab-Israeli War

correct incorrect Korean War

correct incorrect USSR launch of Sputnik; decolonization begins in Africa

correct incorrect Great Leap Forward in China

correct incorrect Cuban Missile Crisis

correct incorrect Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

correct incorrect Vietnam War

correct incorrect Cultural Revolution in China

correct incorrect "Four Modernizations" in China

correct incorrect Shah of Iran overthrown; USSR invades Afghanistan

correct incorrect Perestroika and glasnost in the USSR

correct incorrect Collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union

correct incorrect Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China; Berlin Wall breached

correct incorrect German unification

correct incorrect Civil war and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia

correct incorrect End of apartheid and election of Nelson Mandela as president in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda

correct incorrect Al-Qaeda attack on United States

correct incorrect Global financial crisis and economic recession

correct incorrect Arab Spring uprisings; world population reaches 7 billion