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1
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1989

A

Berlin Wall falls

2
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1994

A

Genocide in Rwanda

3
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1914

A

WW1 begins(ends 1918)

4
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1994

A

Apartheid ends in S. Africa

5
Q

1917

A

Russian Revolution begins(communism begins)

6
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1919

A

Treaty of Versailles negotiated

7
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1959

A

Cuban Revolution/ Castro and communism

8
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1911

A

Chinese Revolution:dynasties end;republic set up

9
Q

2001

A

Terrorist attack on U.S on sept. 11

10
Q

1905

A

Russo Japanese war

11
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1962

A

Cuban missile crisis

12
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1948

A

Birth of Israel/first Arab-Israeli war

13
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1945

A

End of WWII/ atomic bomb dropped

14
Q

1931

A

Japanese imperialism begins with invasion of Manchuria

15
Q

1939

A

Beginnings of WWII/Poland invaded

16
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1989

A

Tiananmen Square revolt in China

17
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1979

A

Iranian revolution

18
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1949

A

Chinese communist revolution/red China born

19
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1947

A

Independence and partition of India

20
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1967

A

Chinese cultural revolution

21
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1940’s-1960’s

A

Decolonization in Africa and Asia

22
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1991

A

Fall of USSR

23
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1910

A

Mexican Revolution(ends 1920)

24
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1929

A

Global depression begins after U.S stock market collapses

25
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1991

A

First gulf war- US vs Iraq

26
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1956

A

Nationalization of Suez Canal