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1910-20
mexican revolution (diaz overthrown)
1911
chinese revolution (end of qing)
1914-18
ww1
1917
russian revolution
1919
treaty of versailles
1929
new york stock market crash
1939
german blitzkrieg in in poland (beg of ww2)
1941
pearl harbor (US entry into WW2)
1942-43
battle of stalingrad (turning pt of war)
1945
end of WW2 (japan surrender)
1947
truman doctrine (“official” decl of cold war)
1947
independence + partition of india
1948
birth of israel
1949
NATO founded
1949
chinese communist revolution
1950-53
korean war
1956
suez canal crisis (nasser nat’lizes)
1959
cuban revolution (fidel castro)
1961-1989
berlin wall
1967
6 day war
1979
iranian revolution (ayatollah khomeini)
1991
persian gulf war + USSR disbands
1994
NAFTA formed
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