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Mexican Revolution
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African National Congress party formed in South Africa
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Fall of Qing dynasty in China; beginning of Chinese Revolution
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World War I
trench warfare, -
Arab revolts against Ottomans
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United States enters WWI
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Russian Revolution
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Balfour Declaration
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Versailles peace settlement, League of Nations
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Revolt in Egypt, first Pan-African Nationalist Congress, non-violent protest in India
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Treaty of Sevres reorganizes in Middle East
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Foundation of Chinese Communist party
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Stalin takes power in Soviet Union
Stalin initiates five-year plans and collectivization -
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Height of Great Depression
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Vargas regime in Brazil
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Japan invades Manchuria
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Gandhi-led resistance in India
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Nazis rise to power in Germany
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New Deal in United States
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Cardenas reform period in Mexico
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German rearmament; Italy captures Ethiopia
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Army officers in power in Japan; invasion of China
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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World War II
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United States enters WWII
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Holocaust
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Formation of United Nations
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Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
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Communists proclaim Vietnam independence
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Soviet takeover of eastern Europe
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Philippine independence from the U.S.
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Peronism in Argentina
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India and Pakistan gain independence
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Marshall Plan for Western Europe
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Division of Korea
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Israel-Palestine partition; first Arab-Israeli war
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Formation of NATO
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Communist victory in China
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Period: to
Korean War
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Warsaw Pact
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Bandung conference; nonaligned movement
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Partial end of Stalinism
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Europeaan Economic Community (Common Market)
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Ghana becomes first independent Afrian Nation
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Cuban Revolution
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Civil Rights movement in United States; revival of feminism
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Algeria declares independence, Cuban Missile Crisis
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U.S. military intervention in Vietnam
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Cultural revolution in China
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Second Arab-Israeli War
Israeli occupation of West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai and Golan Heights -
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Student protests iin West
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Oil Crises; height of OPEC ppower
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Third Arab-Israeli War
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Communist victory in Vietnam
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Democratic regimes spread in Latin America
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Death of Mao; new reform pattern in China
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Iranian revolution
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Iran-Iraw War
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Mikhail Gorbachev heads Soviet Union;
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Reform movement in South Africa
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New regimes throughout eastern Europe
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Reunification of Germany
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Iraq invades Kuwait; Persian Gulf crisis; U.S.-Allied defeat of Iraw
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
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Full economic integration of Common Market
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Oslo Accords between Palestinians and Israelis
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Full democracy in South Africa, Nelson Mandela President
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U.S.-British war invasion of Iraq
