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1950-53
Korean War
1954
Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)
1955
Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine 1956
1959
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro) East 1961
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (above ground)
1966-76
Chinese Cultural Revolution
1967
6-Day War
1973
Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo)
1975-79
Cambodian Genocide (KhmerRouge)
1979
Iranian Revolution (Ayatollah Khomeini)
1979
China’s “Socialist Market Economy” reforms begin (Deng Xiaoping)
1987
1st Palestinian Intifada
1989
Tiananmen Square
1990
Namibia independent (last African colony)
1990
World wide web developed
1991 Jan
1st Persian Gulf War
1991 Dec
USSR disbands
1994
NAFTA formed
1994
Rwandan Genocide
1994
1st all race elections in S. Africa
1999
EU formed (European Union currency)
2001
9/11 Attacks
2003
US invades Iraq (“Enduring warming Freedom”)
2007
Global “Great Recession” begins
2011
“Arab Spring”
2015
Paris agreement to combat global
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