Important Dates (1900-present)
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1905
Russo-Japanese war
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1910-1920
Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown)
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1911
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
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1914-1918/19
World War I/ Treaty of Versailles
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1917
Russian Revolution
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1928
Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war)
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1929
Stock market crashes
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1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
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1937
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China; Rape of Nanking
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1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
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1941
Pearl Harbor, US entry into WWII
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1945
Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War??)
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1945
A-Bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki
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1945
End of WWII (Japan surrenders)
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1947
Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War)
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1947
Independence and Partition of India/Pakistan
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1948
Birth of Israel
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1948-1949
Berlin blockade/airlift
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1949
NATO founded
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1949
Chinese Communist Revolution
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1950-1953
Korean War
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1954
Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)
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1955
Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned nations)
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1956
Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization
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1957
Sputnik
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1959
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)
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1962
Cuban missile crisis
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1965-1973
Vietnam War
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1966-1976
Chinese Cultural Revolution
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1967
6-Day War btwn Israel & Arab States
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1973
Yom Kippur War (OPEC oil embargo)
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1979
Iranian Revolution
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1979
China begins “Socialist Market Economy” reforms (Deng Xiaoping)
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1987
1st Palestinian Intifada
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1989
Tiananmen Square
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1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1990
Namibia gained independence (last African colony)
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1991
1st Persian Gulf War
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1991
USSR disbanded
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1994
Genocide in Rwanda
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1994
1st all race elections in S Africa
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2001
9/11 attacks; “war on terror” begins
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2003
US invades Iraq
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2004
Facebook founded
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2007-08
Global “Great Recession” begins
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2011
Wikileaks, “Arab Spring” democracy
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2011
Syrian Civil War begins
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2014
Rise of Islamic State
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