MKD 1950-Present (Era #4 pt 2)

Korean War

Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)

Bandung Conf (Non-Aligned Nations)

Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization

Suez Canal Crisis (Nasser Nat’lizes)

Sputnik

1st Silicon chip

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (above ground)

Chinese Cultural Revolution

6-Day War

Yom Kippur War (OPEC Oil Embargo)

Cambodian Genocide (Khmer Rouge)

Iranian Revolution (Ayatollah Khomeini)

China’s “Socialist Market Economy” reforms begin (Deng Xiaoping)

1st Palestinian Intifada

Tiananmen Square

Namibia independent (last African colony)

1st Persian Gulf War

USSR disbands

NAFTA formed

Rwandan Genocide

1st all race elections in S. Africa

EU formed (European union currency)

9/11 Attacks

US invades Iraq (“Enduring Freedom”)

Facebook founded

Global “Great Recession” begins

Wikileaks

Arab Spring