Bolshevik Revolution in Russia; United States enters World War I
Treaty of Versailles ending World War I; founding of the Nazi Party
Germany was required to pay heavy reparations, its military forces restricted, forced to accept sole responsibility for the war, lost its colonial empire, & lost 15% of its European territory.
Zhenotdel (Women's Department) Organization set up
Push feminist agenda in Russia
Treaty of Sèrves, dissolving the Ottoman Empire
Founding of the Chinese Communist Party
Mussolini comes to power in Italy
Beginning of Great Depression
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Stalin's Rule
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
Nazi Germany Annexes Austria and German-Speaking parts of Czechoslovakia
Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
D-Day
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
NATO
Communist triumph in China
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Korean War
European Economic Community est.
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China's Great Leap Forward and massive famine
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
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US-Vietnam War
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China's Cultural Revolution
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
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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Gorbachev reforms in uSSR
Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
Economic contraction in the former Soviet Union and economic expansion in China
Dissolution of the USSR
European Union est.
Introduction of the Euro
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Communist North Korea acquires nuclear weapons
Fidel Castro steps down as leader oc communist Cuba
United States proposes to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba