Flashcards
1923-1938
Turkey’s secular modernization
1947
Independence of India/Pakistan
1948
Establishment of state of Israel, apartheid formally established
1949
Independence of inodnesisa; communist victory in china
1955
Bandung conference of nonaligned nations
1959
Cuban revolution
1967
Six-day arab/israeli war
1973
OPEC oil embargo
1979
Revolution in Iran
1994
End of apartheid in South Africa, genocide in Rwanda
2011
Arab spring in the middle east
1917
russian revlolution
1929-1953
Stalin in power of USSR
1945-1950
imposition of communist regimes in EE
1949
communist triumph in china
1950-1953
korean war
1958-1961
chinas great leap forward/ massive famine
1959
cuban revolution
1965-1973
U.S vietnam war
1966-1976
chinas cultural revolution
1968
Prague Spring
1979
Soveit invasion of afghanistan
1989
collapse of communist regimes in EE
1991
disintegration of soviet union
1914-1918
WW1
1919
treaty of versaille
1929
beginning of great depression
1933
hitler assumes power in germany
1937-1938
Japans invades china, beginning WW2 in europe
1939-1945
WW2, holocasut
1941
Japanese attack on Pearl harbor
1945
atomic bomb of hiroshima and nagasaki
1957
european ecomomic community established
1994
EU established