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

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