MKD 1950-Present (Era #4 pt 2)
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1950-1953
Korean War
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1954
Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)
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1955
Bandung Conf (Non-Aligned Nations)
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1956 Feb
Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization
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1956 Fall
Suez Canal Crisis (Nasser Nat’lizes)
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1957
Sputnik
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1959
1st Silicon chip
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1959
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)
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1961-89 Nov
Berlin Wall
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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 (Khmer Rouge)
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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 June
Tiananmen Square
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1990
Namibia independent (last African colony)
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1991 Jan
1st Persian Gulf War
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1991 Dec 31
USSR disbands
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1994
NAFTA formed
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1994 Apr-July
Rwandan Genocide
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1994 Apr
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 Freedom”)
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2004
Facebook founded
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2007
Global “Great Recession” begins
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2011
Wikileaks
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2011
Arab Spring
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