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Volume 4: The Modern Age d Flashcards

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Italian troops in North Africa surrender

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1943

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Juan Peron leads a revolt in Argentina

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1943

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D-Day: Allied soldiers land at Normandy

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1944

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Six million Jews have been killed in the Holocaust

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1945

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The founding of the United Nations

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1945

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The U. S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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1945

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World War II officially ends

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1945

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War over the French control of Indochina

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1946-1954

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India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain

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1947

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Palestine is partitioned

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1947-1948

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Israel becomes a country

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1948

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The Marshall Plan

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1948

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated

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1948

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National Party comes to power in South Africa

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1948

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The Communist Party takes control of China

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1949

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Korean War

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1950-1953

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Eva “Evita” Peron dies

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1952

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Gamal Abdel Nasser comes to power

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1952

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Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi regains control of Iran

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1953

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Brown v. Board of Education

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1954

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French give up claim to Vietnam

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1954

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U. S. tests atomic bombs in the Pacific

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1954

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Armed forces rebel against Argentinian president Peron

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1955

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Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

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1955

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Lumumba petitions Belgian government for the Congo’s freedom

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1956

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Suez Crisis

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1956

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Italian troops in North Africa surrender

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1943

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Soviet Union launches Sputnik

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1957

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John F. Kennedy wins Pulitzer prize for Profiles in Courage

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1957

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Revolution in Cuba puts Fidel Castro in power

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1959

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Congo gains independence from Belgium

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1960

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32
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Nigeria and Zaire become independent

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1960

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Berlin Wall is built

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1961

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Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit the Earth

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1961

35
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

36
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Civil rights protests

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1962-1966

37
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Ruanda-Urundi is divided into Rwanda and Burundi

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1962

38
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated

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1963

39
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Vietnam War

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1964-1975

40
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U. S. enters Vietnam War

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1965

41
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Beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China

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1966

42
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Six-Day War`

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1967

43
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Civil War in Nigeria

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1967-1970

44
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Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated

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1968

45
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Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia

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1968

46
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American astronauts walk on the moon

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1969

47
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IRA starts to campaign for a united Ireland

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1969

48
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ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, is created

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1969

49
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Bangladesh becomes independent

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1971

50
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Black September takes hostages at Olympics

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1972

51
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U. S. signs treaty to withdraw from Vietnam

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1973

52
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Yom Kippur War

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1973

53
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OPEC increases oil prices; gas shortages result

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1973-1974

54
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Mozambique is free from Portuguese control

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1975

55
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General Franco dies in Spain, ends dictatorship

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1975

56
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Mao Zedong dies

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1976

57
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Begin and Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize

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1978

58
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Rebel group assassinates king of Afghanistan

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1978

59
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Shah of Iran overthrown

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1979

60
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USSR invades Afghanistan

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1979

61
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Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island

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1979

62
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Iran-Iraq War

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1980-1988

63
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Israel invades Lebanon

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1982

64
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Argentinian government overthrown in favor of democracy

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1983

65
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Indira Gandhi assassinated

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1984

66
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Factory gas leak in Bhopal, India

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1984

67
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Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR

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1985

68
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Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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1986

69
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Space shuttle Challenger explodes during liftoff

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1986

70
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U. S. and USSR sign the INF treaty

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1987

71
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Hole in the ozone layer confirmed

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1987

72
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Tiananman Square massacre

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1989

73
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Berlin Wall comes down

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1989

74
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Ceaucescu is overthrown in Romania

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1989

75
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Iraq invades Kuwait

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1990

76
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Tim Berners-Lee creates the World-Wide Web

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1990

77
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East and West Germany are reunited

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1990

78
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Nelson Mandela is released from prison

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1991

79
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Gorbachev resigns; Communist Party outlawed in USSR

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1991

80
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America goes to war with Iraq

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1991

81
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Genocide begins in Rwanda

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1994

82
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Nelson Mandela is elected the first black president of South Africa

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1994

83
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Terrorists attack World Trade Center in New York, Pentagon in Washington DC

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2001

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