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International
1945 - Formation of the United Nations 1946-1975 - Decolonization in Asia, Africa, and Caribbean 1946-1989 - Cold War 1947 - Formation of GATT 1947 - Invention of transistor 1955 - Bandung Conference 1958 - Invention of silicone microchips 1968 - Widespread political protests 1975 - End of Portuguese Empire 1995 - Formation of World Trade Organization 1997 - Kyoto Protocol on climate change 2001 - Al Qaeda attack on United States 2008-2009 - Global recession
Eurasia
1949 - Communist victory in China 1950-1953 - Korean War 1954 - Vietnamese defeat of French 1959-1975 - U.S. - Vietnam War 1979-1989 - Soviet War in Afghanistan 1989-1991 - Dismantling of Soviet Bloc and Soviet Union 1997 - Asian economic collapse 2003 - U.S. invasion of Iraq
The Americas
1959 - Communist victory in Cuba 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis 2001 - Al Qaeda attack on United States
China
1945-1949 - Chinese Civil War 1949 - Chinese Communist triumph 1949-1957 - Stalinist model 1950 - Occupation of Tibet 1950 - New marriage law 1950-1953 - Korean War 1957-1961 - First use of Maoist model 1958-1961 - Great Leap Forward 1960 - Sino-Soviet split 1966-1976 - Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1972 - Nixon's trip to Beijing 1976 - Death of Mao Zedong 1976 - Arrest of Gang of Four 1978-1997 - Deng Xiaoping era 1978 - Four modernization policy 1978 - Normalisation of U.S. - China diplomatic relations 1978-1989 - Market socialism 1989 - Tiananmen Massacre 1989 - Introduction of market Leninism 1997 - Return of Hong Kong to China
Japan
1946-1952 - SCAP occupation of Japan 1946 - First postwar Japanese elections 1951 - U.S. - Japan peace treaty 1960s-1989 - Rapid economic growth 1989 - Beginning of Japanese economic downturn 1993 - Fragmentation of Liberal Democratic Party 1997 - Asian financial collapse
Korea and Taiwan
1948-1994 - Kim Il-Sung's leadership of North Korea 1950-1953 - Korean War 1954 - U.S. - Taiwan mutual defence treaty 1980s - South Korean democratisation movement 1989 First democratic elections in Taiwan 1989-1991 - Collapse of Soviet Bloc and Soviet Union 1997 - Asian financial collapse 1998 - Beginning of South Korean "sunshine policy"
Europe
Western Europe 1946-1989 - Cold War 1946-1949 - Greek civil war 1947-1969 - De Gaulle era in France 1948 - Hague Congress on European unity 1948-1949 - Berlin crisis 1948-1952 - Marshall Plan 1949 - Formation of NATO 1957 - European Common Market 1969 - West German Ostpolitik policy 1990 - Reunification of Germany 1991 - Maastricht Treaty 2008-2009 - World economic crisis
Eastern Europ 1945-1948 - Formation of communist governments 1948 - Yugoslavia split from Soviet bloc 1956 - Uprising in Hungary 1961 - Building of Berlin Wall 1968 - Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia 1980 - Formation of Solidarity Trade Union in Poland 1989 - Collapse of communist governments 1991-2000 - Crises in Yugoslavia 2004 - Expansion of European Union into Eastern Europe
Russia
1953 - Death of Stalin 1955 - Formation of Warsaw Pact 1956 - Khrushchev de-Stalinization policy 1957 - Launch of Sputnik 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis 1960 - Sino-Soviet split 1979-1989 - Soviet war in Afghanistan 1985 - Gorbachev new Soviet leader 1991 - Breakup of Soviet Union 1991-2000 - Yeltsin era in Russia
North America
1946-1989 - Cold War 1947 - Formation of CIA and National Security Council 1950-1953 - Korean War 1954 - U.S. Supreme Court invalidation of school segregation 1955 - Sparking of Montgomery bus boycott by Rosa Parks 1960-1975 - U.S. secret war in Laos 1963 - Assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy 1963-1975 - U.S war in Vietnam 1968 - Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1969 - Woodstock Rock Festival 1991 - Gulf War 1994 - Formation of NAFTA 2001 - Al Qaeda terrorist attacks against United States 2003-2011 - U.S. war in Iraq
Pacific Basin
1962-1900 - Decolonization of Pacific islands 1973 - End of "white Australia" policy 1988 - Canadian Multiculturalism Act 1999 - Formation of Nunavut in northern Canada
Latin America and the Caribbean
1946-1955 - Government of Juan Peroni in Argentina 1954 - CIA overthrow of Guatemalan government 1959 - Cuban Revolution 1962 Cuban missile crisis 1964-1985 - Military government in Brazil 1973 - Overthrow of Chilean government 1973-1989 - Military government in Chile 1979-1989 - Sandinista government in Nicaragua 1983 - Restoration of Argentina's democracy 1990 - U.S. invasion of Panama 1994 - Formation of NAFTA 1998 - Economic collapse in many nations 2000 - Election of President Vicente Fox in Mexico 2002 - Election of President Lula da Silva in Brazil
The Middle East
1948 - Formation of Israel 1948-1949 - First Arab-Israeli war 1951 - Nationalist government in Iran 1953 - CIA overthrow of Iranian government 1954-1962 - Algerian Revolution 1954-1970 - Nasser's presidency in Egypt 1956 - Suez Crisis 1960 - Formation of OPEC 1967 - Arab-Israeli Six-Day War 1973 - Arab-Israeli (Yom Kippur) War 1973 - OPEC oil embargo 1978 - Egypt-Israel peace treaty 1979 - Islamic revolution in Iran 1979-1989 Soviet War in Afghanistan 1980-1988 - Iran-Iraq war 1987 - Beginning of Palestinian Intifada 1993 - Limited Palestinian self-government 1996-2001 - Taliban government in Afghanistan 2000 - Renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2001 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan 2003-2011 - United States war and occupation in Iraq 2011-2013 - Arab Spring
Sub-Saharan Africa
1948 - Apartheid in South Africa 1949 - First Mass-based political party in Gold Coast 1952-1960 - Mau Mau uprising in Kenya 1957 - Independence for Ghana 1957- 1975 - African decolonization 1961 - Assassination of Patrice Lumumba in Congo 1965-1980 - White government in Southern Rhodesia 1967-1970 - Nigerian civil war 1975 - Independence for Portuguese colonies 1991-1994 - Civil war in Somalia 1994 - Black majority rule in South Africa 1994 - Genocide in Rwanda 1997 - End of Mobutu era in Congo
South Asia
1947 - Independence for India and Pakistan 1948 - Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi 1948 - Sri Lankan independence 1948-1964 - Nehru era in India 1950 - Indian republic 1959 - Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike first female Prime Minister 1962 - India-China border war 1971 - Formation of Bangladesh 1975-1977 - State of emergency under Indira Gandhi 1984 - Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1988-1990 - First Benazir Bhutto government in Pakistan 1993-1996 - Second Benazir Bhutto government in Pakistan 1999-2006 - Military government led by Pervez Musharraf 2006 - Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Southeast Asia
1945-1950 - Indonesian Revolution 1945 - Formation of Viet Minh government in Vietnam 1946-1954 - First Indochina war 1948 - Independence of Burma 1963-1975 - U.S. - Vietnamese War 1963 - Assassination of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem 1964 - Formation of Malaysia 1964 - Gulf of Tonkin incident 1965 - Secession of Singapore from Malaysia 1965-1966 - Turmoil in Indonesia 1966-1998 - New Order in Indonesia 1968 - Tet Offensive in Vietnam 1970 - Overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia 1975 - Communist victories in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos 1978 - Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia 1997 - Southeast Asian economic crisis 2008-2009 - World economic crisis
