Untitled Flashcards Set

1950-1953 Korean War

1955-1975 Vietnam War

1955 Polio Vaccine approved for use

1956 Khrushchev gains power in USSR; begins de-Stalinization

1958-1962 Great Leap Forward in China

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (above ground)

1967 6-Day War

1973 Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo)

1973-1990 Pinochet in Chile

1977-1989 Deng Xiaoping takes power in China and begins economic reforms

1979 Iranian Revolution

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1990 End of Apartheid in South Africa

1994 Rwandan genocide

2001 9/11

2007 Global “Great Recession” begins

2011 Arab Spring

2015 Paris Agreement to Combat Global Warming