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1997 BCE
Transfer of British Hong Kong to China (1997)
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1990 BCE
Reunification of Germany (1990)
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Period: 1990 BCE to 1991 BCE
Persian Gulf War (1990-1991)
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Period: 1990 BCE to 1991 BCE
Collapse of USSR (1990 - 1991)
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Period: 1988 BCE to 1989 BCE
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1988 - 1989)
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Period: 1980 BCE to 1988 BCE
Iran-Iraq War (1980 - 1988)
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Period: 1978 BCE to 1979 BCE
Revolution in Iran (1978 - 1979)
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1973 BCE
US troops in Vietnam (1973)
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1964 BCE
Creation of PLO (1964)
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1961 BCE
Construction of Berlin Wall (1961)
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1960 BCE
Sino-Soviet Rift (1960)
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1959 BCE
Castro comes to power in Cuba (1959)
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Great leap forward in China (1958 - 1962)
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1956 BCE
Suez Crisis (1956)
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1956 BCE
Uprising in Hungary (1956)
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1955 BCE
Establishment of Warsaw Pact (1955)
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1954 BCE
French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (1954)
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Period: 1954 BCE to 1962 BCE
Algerian War of Liberation (1954 - 1962)
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1950 BCE
Korean War (1950)
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1949 BCE
Establishment of NATO (1949)
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1949 BCE
Establishment of People's Republic of China (1949)
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1948 BCE
Arab-Israeli War (1948)
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1948 BCE
Creation of Israel (1948)
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Period: 1948 BCE to 1994 BCE
Apartheid in South Africa (1948 - 1994)
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1947 BCE
Partition of India (1947)
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1945 BCE
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
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1945 BCE
Capture of Berlin by Soviet Forces (1945)
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1945 BCE
Division of Berlin and Germany (1945)
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1945 BCE
Establishment of United Nations (1945)
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Period: 1942 BCE to 1943 BCE
Soviet victory at Stalingrad (1942 - 1943)
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1941 BCE
German invasion of USSR (1941)
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1939 BCE
Invasion of Poland by Germany (1939)
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1938 BCE
German Anschluss with Austria (1938)
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1938 BCE
Cardenas Nationalized Oil Industry in Mexico (1938)
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Period: 1936 BCE to 1938 BCE
Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR (1936 - 1938)
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1934 BCE
Hitler is ruler in Germany (1934)
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1934 BCE
Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua (1934 )
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Period: 1934 BCE to 1935 BCE
Long March by Chinese Communists (1934 - 1935)
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1931 BCE
Invasion of China by Japan (1931)
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1931 BCE
Invasion of China by Japan (1931)
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Period: 1931 BCE to 1932 BCE
Japanese invasion of Manchuria (1931 - 1932)
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1930 BCE
Civil disobedience movement in India (1930)
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1929 BCE
US stock market crash (1929)
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Period: 1928 BCE to 1932 BCE
First Soviet Five-Year Plan (1928 - 1932)
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1922 BCE
Lenin's New Economic Policy (1922)
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1920 BCE
First meeting of the League of Nations (1920)
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1919 BCE
Mussolini launches fascist movement in Italy (1919)
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1919 BCE
Republic of Turkey (1919)
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1919 BCE
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
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1919 BCE
May Fourth Movement in China (1919)
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1918 BCE
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
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1918 BCE
Ataturk Proclaims Republic of Turkey (1918)
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1917 BCE
Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
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Period: 1917 BCE to 1922 BCE
Civil War in Russia (1917 - 1922)
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1915 BCE
German resumption of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (1915):
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1915 BCE
Japan makes Twenty-one Demands on China (1915)
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Period: 1915 BCE to 1916 BCE
Gallipoli campaign (1915 - 1916)
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1914 BCE
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand (1914)
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D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy (1944)
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