MKD 1950-present

1950-53

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