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Balfour Declaration
Signed at the end of WWI, promising the Jews homeland in Palestine -
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British discredit Ghanaian independence leaders as communist
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USSR formed
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Joseph Stalin becomes leader of USSR
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Iran establishes a constitutional monarchy
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Batista Ruled in Cuba
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Mohammad Reza Khan abdicates the throne to Iran.
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Korean War
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Split into West and East Germany
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Vietnam Civil War
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"Iron Curtain"
Winston Churchill declared an "Iron Curtain has descended across the continent" -
Partitioning of Berlin
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Berlin Blockade and airlift
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Israel becmoes a nation
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East Berlin Formed
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MAo in power as president of communist party in China
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North Korea invades South Korea
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Mohammad Mossadegh elected
First democratically elected Prime Minister in Iran -
Anglo-Iranian oil Company/ BP is nationalized
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Mossadegh is ousted
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Le Duan (Vietnam)
Le Duan pushes north to take over south -
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Agricultural reform in China
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Military attack that starts Cuban Revolution
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Korean Truce
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Geneva Conference
Partitioning of Vietnam on 17 parallel. It ended France involvement -
Diem creates his own state in South Vietnam
Becomes Prime Minister in the South -
Warsaw Pact
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union -
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Suez Crisis
Nassar Nationalizes Suez canal, GB, France, and Israel invaded and reached an armistice. -
Ghanaian Independence
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Batista leaves Cuba after Fidel Castro leads Coup
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Congolese gain independence from Belgium
Americans think the government is communist -
United States backs successful Coup
Joseph Mobuntu becomes dictator -
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Berlin Wall
Physically and ideologically divided Berlin -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Berlin Wall built
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Khomeini is expelled from Iran
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Diem Dies (vietnam)
Military coup kills Diem -
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American- Vietnam War
American fight Vietnamese war -
Cultural Revolution in China
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Six Day War in Israel
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SALT 1
limit defense creation -
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Iranian Revolution
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SALT 2
limit Nuclear Weapons creation -
Gorbachev becomes GenSec
Glasnost and Perestroika impeached -
Implement the Congress of People's Deputies
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Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan
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Free election in USSR
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Gorbachev ends communist monopoly
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Failed communist coup in USSR
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Boris Yeltsin is the first elected president
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Soviet Union Falls