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1905
Russo-Japanese War
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1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
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1911
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
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1914-1918
World War I
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1917 March
Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)
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1917 Oct/Nov
Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)
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1918 Nov
Armistice (end of WWI fighting)
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1919
Treaty of Versailles
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1929
Stock market crash
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1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
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1937
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)
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1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland
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1941
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
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1945 Feb
Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)
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1945 Aug
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
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1945 Sept
End of WWII (Japan surrenders)
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1947 June
Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War)
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1947 Aug
Independence & Partition of India
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1948
Birth of Israel
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1948-49
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
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1949 Apr
NATO founded
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1949 Oct
Chinese Communist Revolution
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1950-1953
Korean War
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1954
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)
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1955
Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)
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1956 Feb
Krushchev begins de-Stalinization
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1956 Fall
Nationalization of the Suez Canal
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1957
Sputnik
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1959
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)
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1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
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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/Opec Oil Embargo
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1979
Iranian Revolution
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1979
China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms”
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1987
1st Palestinian Intifada
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1989 June
Tiananmen Square
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1989 Nov
Fall of Berlin Wall
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1990
Namibia gains independence (last African colony)
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1991 Jan
1st Persian Gulf War
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1991 Dec
USSR disbands
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1994 Apr-Jul
Rwandan Genocide
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1994 Apr
1st all race elections- South Africa
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2001
9/11 Attacks
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2003
US Invades Iraq
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2004
Facebook Founded
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2007
Global “Great Recession” begins
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2011
Wikileaks, “Arab Spring”
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