User:Brunnock/20th century events

1900s

 * 1901: Federation of Australia
 * 1901: William McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.
 * 1901: First Nobel Prizes are awarded.
 * 1902: Second Boer War ends when the British Empire defeats the Transvaal Boers.
 * 1903: Panama declares independence from Colombia with the support of the United States which gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
 * 1904: The Entente Cordiale ends centuries of conflict between France and England.
 * 1904-07: Herero Wars between Hereros and German colonists in Namibia
 * 1905: Japan defeats Russia in the Russo-Japanese War.
 * 1905: Norway declares independence from Sweden.
 * 1908: Petroleum is discovered in the Middle East at Masjed Soleyman.
 * 1908: Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire
 * 1908: Young Turks lead a successful rebellion against the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and rule it until 1918.
 * 1909: NAACP founded.

1910s

 * 1910: Union of South Africa
 * 1910: Japan annexes Korea.
 * 1910: Portugese Republican Revolution
 * 1910-28: Mexican Revolution
 * 1910: Henry Ford begins mass producing Model T automobiles.
 * 1911-12: Xinhai Revolution results in the end of the Qing Dynasty and the formation of the Republic of China.
 * 1912: International Opium Convention- first international agreement to curb the drug trade
 * 1912: France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
 * 1912: The RMS Titanic sinks.
 * 1912-13: Balkan Wars
 * 1912: African National Congress formed in South Africa.
 * 1914-19: World War I results in the dissolutions of the German, Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires.
 * 1914: Panama Canal opens.
 * 1917: Russian Revolution
 * 1918-19: Spanish flu pandemic
 * 1918-19: German Revolution leads to the Weimar Republic.

1920s

 * 1929-39: Great Depression

1930s

 * 1939-45: World War II

1940s

 * 1945: United Nations established.
 * 1947-91: Cold War
 * 1947-79: Indochina Wars
 * 1947-99: Indo-Pakistani Wars
 * 1948: The 1948 Arab-Israeli War touched off the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict.

1950s

 * 1950-53: Korean War
 * 1955-68: Civil Rights Movement
 * 1957-75: Space Race
 * 1958-62: Great Leap Forward

1960s

 * 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated
 * 1968: Riots followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the US. (see 1968 Washington, D.C. riots)
 * 1969-76: Cultural Revolution in China

1970s

 * 1973 oil crisis
 * 1975-79: The Khmer Rouge kill over 25% of the population of Cambodia (2 million people).
 * 1979: Iranian Revolution

1980s

 * 1980-88: Iran-Iraq War

1990s

 * 1994: Rwandan Genocide
 * 1996-99: Kosovo War
 * 1998-2003: Second Congo War