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Swadeshi Movement
Proposed the eventual partition of Bengal; part of movement towards Indian independence- no consumption of English goods. -
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Russian Revolution
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Bolshevik Revolution
Actual seizure of power from the Bolshevik family within the greater Russian Revolution. -
Jallianwala Massacre
Golden Temple in Amritsar, people were not allowed to gather for publically; shot point blanc. -
Proclamation of the USSR
Contingent upon the Russian Revolution of 1917. -
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Salt March
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2nd Government of India Act
Status of dominion (sim. to Australia). -
Four Freedoms Speech
Speech by Roosevelt, want, speech, worship, fear -
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Yalta Conference
Theoretical beginning for the Cold War. -
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Truman in Office
Truman Doctrine. -
Creation of the United Nations
Signing of the UN Charter, ratification on 24 October. -
Division of the Koreas
North (Russia) and South (USA). -
End of World War II
Taking into consideration the end of the war to be V-J day, and not V-E day. -
X Article
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Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
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First Indo-China War
French against Vietnamese forced; Viet Minh victory, provisional division of Vietnam in north and south; consolidation of the independence of Laos, Cambodia and VIetnam. -
Truman Doctrine Speech
Was what encouraged the creation of the Marshall Plan by general Marshall. -
India/Pakistan Independence
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Gandhi's Assassination
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Marshall Plan
Aid supplied to Greece and Turkey; plan supposed to last four years. -
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Berlin Blockade
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Signing of NATO
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Geneva Convention
Laid the groundwork for humanitarian laws in the future. -
Consolidation of the People's Republic of China
End of Chinese Civil War; Mao Zedong comes into power with a communist regime. -
NSC-68
National Security Council Report 68 -
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Korean War
Proxy War, USA versus USSR; ends with an armistice. -
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Eisenhower in Office
Planned the Bay of Pigs attack. -
Stalin Dies
Beginning of Khrushchev Era in Russia. -
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Khrushchev in Office
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Domino Theory
Domino Theory ImageFirst heard in an Eisenhower speech; "falling domino principle"; feared communism would get to India. -
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries ~ French defeat. -
Signing of the Warsaw Pact
Response to the creation of NATO by Western forces. -
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Vietnam War
Resulted in a communist victory; America forced to retreat; also known as Second indo-China War. -
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Sino-Soviet Split
Especially intensified during the 1970s. -
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Kennedy in Office
Assassinated, hence his term ended earlier then expected. -
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Operation Mongoose
Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba. -
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Castro in Office
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Cuban Missile Cris
Brink of nuclear war during the Cold War period. -
CMC, Declaration of Quarantine
Day 8. -
Independence of Bangladesh
Previously: East Pakistan. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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War in Afghanistan
Ongoing.
