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!Dates
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!Place/Empire
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!Place/ People
!Region
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|Abbasid Caliphate, Dar-al-Islam
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|Mideast
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|religion
|Islam
|Islam
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|Dar al-Islam, Pax Islamica
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[[File:Regions of the Lands of Islam by al-Muqaddasi.jpg|thumb|The lands and cities of the Dar al-Islam in the 10th century, according to the geographer al-Muqaddasi]]
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|Asia
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|Magna Carta  
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| 1258  
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|Mongols take Baghdad| Abbasid Caliphate ends
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|Mongol invasion of Japan fails
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| 1260
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|Mongol Empire divided into 4 khanates
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| 1271-1295  
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|Marco Polo's travels
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| 1260-1350
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|1279
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|Yuan Dynasty in China (Mongol rule)
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|1282
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|introduction of water-powered paper-mill "
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| 1299-1923  
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|Ottoman Empire
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| 1400-1600
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|Italian Renaissance
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| 1324  
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|Mansa Musa pilgrimage to Mecca
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| 1325  
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|Tenochitlan founded
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| 1325-1354  
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|Ibn Battuta's travels
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| 1346  
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|Black Death in China
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|Black Death in Europe
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|Red Turban Rebellion
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|Ming Dynasty
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| 1405-1433  
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|Zheng He's treasure voyages
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| 1428-1521  
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|Aztec Empire
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| 1438-1533  
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|Inca Empire
|Inca Empire
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| 1440  
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| 1440  
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|Guteneberg invents printing press  
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| 1400s  
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|Portuguese caravel developed
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| 1441  
| 1441  
|Atlantic slave trade in Atlantic islands
|Atlantic slave trade in Atlantic islands
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| 1453  
| 1453  
|Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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|Russia overthrows Mongol rule in Moscow
|Russia overthrows Mongol rule in Moscow
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| 1464-1591  
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|Songhai Empire
|Songhai Empire
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| 1469  
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|Sikhism begins
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| 1492
| 1492
|Reconquista of Spain completed
|Reconquista of Spain completed
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| 1492  
| 1492  
|Columbus's 1st voyage to Americas
|Columbus's 1st voyage to Americas
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| 1498  
| 1498  
|Vasco da Gama reaches India
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| 1501-1722  
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|Safavid Empire
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| 1534  
| 1534  
|African slaves trade to Americas starts
|African slaves trade to Americas starts
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|Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules Kongo Empire
|Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules Kongo Empire
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| 1517  
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| 1519-1521  
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|Magellan voyage around the world
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| 1526-1748  
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|Mughal Empire
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| 1534  
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|France claims St. Lawrence riverway (Quebec colony)
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| 1543  
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|Copernicus / heliocentric universe
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| 1545  
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|Potosi mine opened in Bolivia
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| 1550-1700  
| 1550-1700  
|Scientific Revolution
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| 1552  
| 1552  
|Russian Empire begins
|Russian Empire begins
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| 1556-1605  
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|Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire
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| 1571  
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|Manila founded by Spanish
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| 1595  
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|Dutch "Fluyt" cargo ship introduced
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| 1600  
| 1600  
|British East India Company founded
|British East India Company founded
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| 1600-1826  
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|Tokugawa shogunate
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| 1602  
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|Dutch East India Company founded
|Dutch East India Company founded
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| 1607  
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|Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown
|Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown
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| 1623-1641  
| 1623-1641  
|Tokugawa Iemitsu rules Japan
|Tokugawa Iemitsu rules Japan
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| 1632  
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|Taj Mahal built
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| 1643-1715  
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|Louis XIV rules France
|Louis XIV rules France
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| 1652  
| 1652  
|Boers colonize South Africa
|Boers colonize South Africa
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| 1687  
| 1687  
|Newton publishes Principia
|Newton publishes Principia
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| 1688-1911/12  
| 1688-1911/12  
|Qing (Manchu) Empire
|Qing (Manchu) Empire
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| 1689  
| 1689  
|Glorious Revolution in England
|Glorious Revolution in England
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| 1698  
| 1698  
|Early steam engine invented
|Early steam engine invented
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| 1756-1763  
| 1756-1763  
|Seven Years' War
|Seven Years' War
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| 1757  
| 1757  
|Battle of Plassey in India
|Battle of Plassey in India
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| 1760-1789  
| 1760-1789  
|First Industrial Revolution
|First Industrial Revolution
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|1765-1783  
|1765-1783  
|American Revolution
|American Revolution
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|1776  
|1776  
|Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published
|Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published
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|1776  
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|Declaration of Independence  
|Declaration of Independence  
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| 1789-1795  
| 1789-1795  
|French Revolution
|French Revolution
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| 1791-1804  
| 1791-1804  
|Haitian Revolution
|Haitian Revolution
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| 1792  
| 1792  
|Mary Wollstonecraft' "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
|Mary Wollstonecraft' "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
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| 1793  
| 1793  
|Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
|Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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| 1799-1815  
| 1799-1815  
|Napoleonic period
|Napoleonic period
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| 1806-1826  
| 1806-1826  
|Latin American revolutions/ Bolivar
|Latin American revolutions/ Bolivar
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| 1815  
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|Congress of Vienna
|Congress of Vienna
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| 1839-1860  
| 1839-1860  
|Opium Wars
|Opium Wars
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| 1839-1876  
| 1839-1876  
|Ottoman Tanzimat reforms
|Ottoman Tanzimat reforms
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| 1845-1849  
| 1845-1849  
|Irish potato famine
|Irish potato famine
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| 1848  
| 1848  
|Communist Manifesto published
|Communist Manifesto published
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| 1848  
| 1848  
|Seneca Falls Convention
|Seneca Falls Convention
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| 1850-1864  
| 1850-1864  
|Taiping Rebellion
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| 1854  
| 1854  
|Commodore Perry opens Japan
|Commodore Perry opens Japan
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| 1857  
| 1857  
|Sepoy Rebellion
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| 1859-1869  
| 1859-1869  
|Suez Canal built
|Suez Canal built
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| 1861  
| 1861  
|emancipation of Russian serfs
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| 1863  
| 1863  
|Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
|Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
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| 1865-1909  
| 1865-1909  
|King Leopold rule of Congo
|King Leopold rule of Congo
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| 1868  
| 1868  
|Meiji Restoration in Japan
|Meiji Restoration in Japan
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| 1870-1914  
| 1870-1914  
|Second Industrial Revolution
|Second Industrial Revolution
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| 1871  
| 1871  
|Germany unified under Otto von Bismarck
|Germany unified under Otto von Bismarck
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| 1885  
| 1885  
|Berlin Conference & the "scramble for Africa  
|Berlin Conference & the "scramble for Africa  
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| 1890s  
| 1890s  
|European spheres of influence in China
|European spheres of influence in China
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| 1896  
| 1896  
|Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia)  
|Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia)  
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| 1898  
| 1898  
|Spanish-American War
|Spanish-American War
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| 1899  
| 1899  
|Boer War
|Boer War
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| 1899  
| 1899  
|United Fruit Company formed
|United Fruit Company formed
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| 1899-1901  
| 1899-1901  
|Boxer Rebellion
|Boxer Rebellion
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| Units 7-9, 1900 to Present
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| 1904
| 1904
| U.S. starts Panama Canal
| U.S. starts Panama Canal
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| 1904-1905  
| 1904-1905  
| Russo-Japanese War
| Russo-Japanese War
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| 1906  
| 1906  
| Muslim League founded
| Muslim League founded
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| 1910-1920  
| 1910-1920  
|Mexican Revolution
|Mexican Revolution
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| 1914-1918  
| 1914-1918  
|World War I
|World War I
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| 1915-1917  
| 1915-1917  
|Armenian genocide
|Armenian genocide
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| 1917  
| 1917  
|Russian revolution
|Russian revolution
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| 1917  
| 1917  
|Zimmerman telegram & US entry to WWI
|Zimmerman telegram & US entry to WWI
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| 1920  
| 1920  
|League of Nations established
|League of Nations established
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| 1922  
| 1922  
| Stalin assumes Soviet leadership
| Stalin assumes Soviet leadership
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| 1922  
| 1922  
| Ottoman empire ends
| Ottoman empire ends
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| 1923  
| 1923  
|Turkey established
|Turkey established
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| 1927-1936  
| 1927-1936  
|Chinese Civil War
|Chinese Civil War
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| 1929-1939  
| 1929-1939  
|worldwide economic depressions
|worldwide economic depressions
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| 1931  
| 1931  
|Japanese invasion of Manchuria
|Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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| 1933-39  
| 1933-39  
|New Deal
|New Deal
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| 1936-1938  
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|Great Purge in USSR
|Great Purge in USSR
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| 1939-1945  
| 1939-1945  
|World War II
|World War II
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| 1941  
| 1941  
| Pearl Harbor attack
| Pearl Harbor attack
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| 1941-1945  
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|Holocaust
|Holocaust
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| 1941-1953  
| 1941-1953  
|Stalin total rule
|Stalin total rule
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| 1943-1949
| 1943-1949
|Greek civil war
|Greek civil war
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Line 761: Line 1,012:
| 1943-1978  
| 1943-1978  
|Green Revolution
|Green Revolution
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Line 767: Line 1,020:
| 1945-1950  
| 1945-1950  
|Chinese Communist Revolution
|Chinese Communist Revolution
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| 1945  
| 1945  
|atomic bombs dropped
|atomic bombs dropped
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| 1946  
| 1946  
|Philippine independence
|Philippine independence
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| 1947  
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|Partition of India
|Partition of India
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Line 791: Line 1,052:
| 1947  
| 1947  
|Japanese Empire formally ended
|Japanese Empire formally ended
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Line 797: Line 1,060:
| 1947  
| 1947  
|Truman Doctrine
|Truman Doctrine
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| 1947-1990  
| 1947-1990  
|Cold War
|Cold War
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| 1948  
| 1948  
|Israel founded
|Israel founded
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Line 815: Line 1,084:
| 1949  
| 1949  
|NATO established
|NATO established
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Line 821: Line 1,092:
| 1950-1953  
| 1950-1953  
|Korean War
|Korean War
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Line 827: Line 1,100:
| 1953-1959  
| 1953-1959  
|Cuban Revolution
|Cuban Revolution
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Line 833: Line 1,108:
| 1955  
| 1955  
|Warsaw Pact founded
|Warsaw Pact founded
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Line 839: Line 1,116:
| 1955  
| 1955  
|Bandung Conference
|Bandung Conference
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| 1955  
| 1955  
|Polio vaccine introduced
|Polio vaccine introduced
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Line 851: Line 1,132:
| 1955-1975  
| 1955-1975  
|Vietnam War
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| 1956  
| 1956  
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|Khrushchev takes power
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| 1960  
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| 1961  
| 1961  
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| 1962  
| 1962  
|Cuban Missile Crisis
|Cuban Missile Crisis
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| 1966-1976  
| 1966-1976  
|Cultural Revolution
|Cultural Revolution
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| 1973-1990  
|Pinochet coup
|Pinochet coup
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| 1977-1989  
|Deng Xiaoping assumes power
|Deng Xiaoping assumes power
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| 1979  
| 1979  
|Iranian Revolution
|Iranian Revolution
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| 1989  
| 1989  
|Tiananmen Square protests
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| 1989  
| 1989  
|fall of the Berlin Wall
|fall of the Berlin Wall
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| 1990  
| 1990  
|collapse of USSR
|collapse of USSR
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| 1990  
| 1990  
|Apartheid ended
|Apartheid ended
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| 1991  
| 1991  
| Gulf War
| Gulf War
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| 1994  
| 1994  
|Rwandan genocide
|Rwandan genocide
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|Sept 11 attacks
|Sept 11 attacks
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| War on Terrorism
| War on Terrorism
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|Arab Spring
|Arab Spring
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