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Russo-Japanese War
1905
Mexican Revolution
1910-1920
Chinese Revolution
1911
World War I/Treaty of Versailles
1914-1918/19
Russian Revolution
1917
Kellog-Briand Pact
1928
Stock Market Crashes
October 1929
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1935
Japanese Invasion of China, Rape of Nanking
1937
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1939
Pearl Harbor - US enters WWII
1941
Yalta conference/beginning of cold war
1945 Feb
A-bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki
1945 Aug
end of WWII (Japan surrenders)
1945 Sept
Truman Doctrine
1947 June
Independence and Partrition of India/Pakistan
1947 Aug
Birth of Israel
1948
Berlin blockade/airlift
1948-1949
NATO founded
1949 Apr
Chinese Communist Revolution
1949 Oct
Korean War
1950-1953
Vietnam expels France
1954
Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)
1955
Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization
1956 Feb
Sputnik
1957
Cuban Revolution
1959
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Vietnam War
1965-1973
Chinese Culture Revolution
1966-1976
6 day war between arabs and israel
1967
Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo)
1973
Iranian Revolution
1979
China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms (Deng Xiaoping)
1979
1st Palestinian Intifada
1987
Tiananmen Square
1989 June
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 Nov
Namibia gains independence (last African colony)
1990
1st Persian Gulf War
1991 Jan
USSR disbanded
1991 Dec
Genocide in Rwanda
1994 Apr-July
1st all race elections in S. Africa
1994 Apr
9/11 attacks; "war on terror" begins
2001
US invades Iraq
2003
Facebook founded
2004
Global "Great Recession" begins
2007-08
Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy
2011
Syrian Civil War begins
2011
Rise of Islamic State
2014
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