World 1950-present

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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 (Nonaligned nations)

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1956 (feb)

Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization

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1956 (fall)

Suez Canal Crisis

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1957

Sputnik

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1959

1st silicon chip

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1959

Cuban revolution (Fidel Castro)

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1961-1989

Berlin Wall

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1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

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1963

Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (above ground)

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1966-1976

Chinese Cultural Revolution

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1967

6-Day war

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1973

Yom Kippur war

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1975-1979

Cambodian Genocide

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1979

Iranian Revolution

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1979

China's "Socialist Market Economy" reforms begin

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1987

1st Palestinian Intifada

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1989 (june)

Tiananmen Square

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1990

Namibia independent

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1991 (jan)

1st Persian Gulf war

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1991 (dec)

USSR disbands

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1994

NAFTA formed

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1994 (apr-july)

Rwandan Genocide

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1994 (apr)

1st all-race elections in S.Africa

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1999

EU formed

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2001

9/11 attacks

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2003

US invades Iraq ("Enduring Freedom")

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2004

Facebook founded

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2007

Global "great Recession" begins

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2011

Wikileaks

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2011

"Arab Spring"