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1914
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WWI
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1917
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Russian Revolution
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1919
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Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI
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1929
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Stock market crash
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1931
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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1935
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Italian invasion of Ethiopia
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1939
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German blitzkrieg in Poland
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1941
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Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
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1945
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End of WWII
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1947
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Independence & partition of India
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1948
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Birth of Israel
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1949
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Chinese Communist Revolution
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1950-1953
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Korean War
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1954
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Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
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1956
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De-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal
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1959
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Cuban Revolution
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1962
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Cuban missile crisis
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1967
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6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution
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1973
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Yom Kippur war
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1979
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Iranian Revolution
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1987
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1st Palestinian Intifada
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1989
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Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
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1991
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Fall of USSR/1st Gulf war
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1994
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Genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S.Africa
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2001
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9/11 attacks
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