3.  End of the Age of Empires  Democracies displace monarchies  Big business people displace landed aristocracy  New Types of Nationalism (fascism, decolonization, racism, genocide, break up of USSR)  Globalization  World War I  Great Depression  World War II  Cold War

5.  Some countries continue to rely on the production of raw materials (former colonies/third world countries)  Industrialized nations continue to greatly influence the economies in Africa, Latin America and SE Asia  Overall economic inequalities persisted within and between societies  Rural regions in India maintained old economic and social forms  Many societies continue to resist changes in gender relations  Ex. Girls are less likely to be educated in many societies

7.  Globalization  World War I  Great Depression  World War II  Cold War  Rise of International Organizations  (ex. League of Nations & United Nations)

10.  World War I Begins

12.  Russian Revolution

14.  Treaty of Versailles – End of World War I

16.  Stock Market Crash – Beginning of the Great Depression

18.  Japanese invasion of Manchuria

20.  Italian invasion of Ethiopia

22.  German blitzkrieg in Poland – Beginning of World War II

24.  Japan bombs Pearl Harbor - U.S. Enters World War II

26.  End of World War II

28.  Independence and Partition of India

30.  Birth of Israel

32.  Chinese Communist Revolution

34.  Korean War

36.  Yom Kippur War

38.  Iranian Revolution

40.  1 st Palestinian Intifada

42.  Tiananmen Square & Fall of Berlin Wall

44.  Fall of USSR & 1 st Gulf War

46.  Genocide in Rwanda & 1 st all-race elections in South Africa

48.  9/11 Attacks