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Residential schools were established in 1831 and the last school was dismantled in 1996.
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Between 1914-1923 the tragic massacre, about 353,000 Pontic Greeks were killed, and 1.5 million people were forced to leave their homes.
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During 1914-1920 the extermination of Assyrian people was organized by Ottoman & Kurdish forces under the rule of the Young Turks.
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World War I begins in 1914
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In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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A massive United States bombing campaign against the Khmer Rouge devastated rural Cambodia.
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1971- Idi Amin overthrows Obote.
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The Bosnian War started in 1991 with the arming of Bosnian Serbs by the Yugoslavian Army. The war ended in 1995 after an agreement.
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President Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira are assassinated as their aircraft is shot down approaching Kigali. The incident sparks the Rwandan genocide.
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A Coalition Provisional Authority under American leadership began the initial transition between 2003 to 2007, which was the first phase. By 2011, the Baghdad government agreed to integrate Sunni tribes into the Iraqi security forces to limit the religious rift, while the United States withdrew from Iraq.
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Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine in a steep escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war.