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World War I starts
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World War I ends
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Russian Revolution
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Mahknovist (anarchist) movement in Ukraine
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Failed German Revolution
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1924-1930s Internal struggles in USSR
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Lenin dies
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Trotsky exiled from USSR
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Great Depression starts
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Hitler takes power in Germany
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CPUSA at its peak in 30s
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Spanish Civil War / Revolution 1936-39
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1939-45 World War II
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CPUSA temporarily dissolves itself into CPA
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Eastern European people's democracies formed 1945-49
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US drops nukes on Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Aug 6 & 9, 1945)
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USSR gets nuclear bomb
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Chinese revolution
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Smith Act Trials vs CPUSA leaders
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Korean revolution / war 1950-53
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Stalin dies
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African national liberation mvmts (1955-1980)
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Vietnam war starts (1955-1975)
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Kruschev's anti-Stalin speech at 20th congress
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Cuban revolution
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Congo wins independece
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Sino-Soviet Split
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Berlin Wall built
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Patrice Lumumba assassinated (Congo)
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Marulanda launches Colombian armed struggle that becomes FARC (1961-present)
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Cuban missile crisis
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China first public criticism of USSR
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China gets nuclear bomb
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Chinese Cultural revolution starts
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French near revolutionary moment
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1968 worldwide revolutionary upsurge
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Communist Party of the Philippines reconstituted - people's war launched in 1969
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Amilcar Cabral assassinated (Guinea-Bissau)
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Guinea-Bissau wins independence
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Mozambique wins independence
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Vietnam War ends
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Chinese Cultural revolution ends
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Mao dies
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Afghanistan PDPA in power (1978-90)
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Iranian revolution
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Nicaraguan revolution
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Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-88)
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Grenada revolution (1980-83)
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Salvadoran revolutionary mvmt (1980-92)
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Chinese 'opening up' starts / verdict reversed on Cultural Revolution
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US invades Grenada - overthrows revolution
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People's Power movement in Philippines overthrows Marcos dictatorship
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Berlin Wall comes down, Eastern European revolutions defeated
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US invades Panama
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China avoids counterrevolution at Tienanmen Square incident
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USSR dissolved
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Capture of Gonzalo halts Peruvian revolutionary mvmt
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Peace accords in El Salvador, S. Africa, etc
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Zapatista uprising in Mexico
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Nepal Maoists launch people's war (1996-2006)
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Chavez wins power in Venezuela
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US overthrows Yugoslavian government
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US invades / occupies Afghanistan (2001-present)
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US invades Iraq, overthrows govt
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Global Economic Crash
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Nepali Maoists become ruling party; later split
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FMLN wins election in El Salvador, FSLN back in Nicaragua
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Tunisia, Egypt, Spain, Greece, OWS...