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Japan colonizes Korean Peninsula
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Soviet Union formed
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France declares war on Germany
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Germany split
Britain, France, US, USSR, split Germany into East/West + Berlin -
US & USSR forces capture Korean peninsula at end of WWII
US & USSR forces capture Korean peninsula at end of WWII -
Japan surrenders to US
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Central northern regions of africa
Central Northern regions of Africa went under Brit control -
Kim Il Sung assumes power in North Korea (Syngman Rhee leads south korea)
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US & USSR split Korea in 38th Parallel
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Kim Il Sung rules North Korea
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US creates military assistance group in Vietnam fighting China
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Korean war
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Mao's first 5 year plan
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Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro leads attack w/ military rebels in Cuba -
France signs Geneva Peace Conference
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Warsaw pact
The alliance between countries in eastern europe -
Suez canal crisis
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Gold coast becomes independent state of Ghana
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Great Leap Forward (china)
Mao proposed Great Leap Forward -
protests in Congo
people stopped paying taxes following colonial laws and recognizing authority of colonial officials -
Castro takes over Cuba from Batista
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Congo becomes independent
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US embargo on Cuba
Us places embargo on Cuba for forcing out US companies and trading w/ soviets -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
US gov leads ex-Cubans to overthrow Castro and it fails -
Berlin wall built by East Germany
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Kruschev puts missiles in Cuba
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China joins Vietnam war
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 22 Kennedy announced blockade of Russian ships w/ nukes -
Mao launches great proletarian cultural revolution
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Saigon Falls
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return of Ayatollah Khomeini (Iran)
beginning of 1979 revolution -
Gorbichev elected
instates Glasnost (soviet policy which increases transparency) and Perestroika (restructuring of economy which ends central planning and reopens markets -
USSR puts non intervention policy in Poland
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Borus Yeltsin is elected president
he was not communist which made communist party very unhappy -
Berlin wall falls
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collapse of Soviet Union
leaves North Korea politically and economically isolated -
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Kim Jong Il rules North Korea
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North Korea withdraws from 1995 nuclear proliferation treaty
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Kim jong Un rules North Korea