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Russo-Japanese War
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World War I
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Bolshevik Revolution in Russia; United States enters World War I
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Treaty of Versailles ending World War I; founding of the Nazi Party
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Treaty of Sèrves, dissolving the Ottoman Empire
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Founding of the Chinese Communist Party
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Mussolini comes to power in Italy
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Beginning of Great Depression
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Stalin's Rule
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Hitler assumes power in Germany
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Long March in China
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Japan invades China; Beginning of World War II in Asia; Rape of Nanjing
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World War II; the Holocaust
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Nazi Germany Annexes Austria and German-Speaking parts of Czechoslovakia
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Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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D-Day
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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; United Nations created
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US occupation of Japan
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Imposition of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
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Cold War
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Marshall Plan for Europe
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NATO
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Communist triumph in China
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Korean War
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European Economic Community est.
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China's Great Leap Forward and massive famine
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Cuban Revolution
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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US-Vietnam War
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China's Cultural Revolution
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Prague Spring: communist reform movement in Czechoslovakia
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Cambodian Genocide
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Deng Xiaoping and beginnings of communist reforms in China
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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Gorbachev reforms in uSSR
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Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
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Economic contraction in the former Soviet Union and economic expansion in China
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Dissolution of the USSR
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European Union est.
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Introduction of the Euro
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Communist North Korea acquires nuclear weapons
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Fidel Castro steps down as leader oc communist Cuba
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United States proposes to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba