Part 2 Dates 1900-present

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1954

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

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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

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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 Feb

Iranian Revolution

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1979

China begins "Socialist Market Economy Reforms" (Deng Xiaoping)

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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 to do so)

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1991 Jan

1st Gulf War

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1991 Dec

Fall of USSR

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1994 Apr-July

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" democracy movement

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