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126 Cards in this Set
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boer war
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1900
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death of queen victoria
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1900
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russo-japanese war
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1900
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tsar nicholas II issues october manifest
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1900
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algeciras conference
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1900
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great britain launches HMS dreadnought
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1900
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austria-hungary annexes bosnia and herzogovina
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1900
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assasination of archduke franz ferdinand
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1910
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italy defects from the triple alliance
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1910
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fighting begins with german invasion of belgium
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1910
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first battle of the marne and failure of the schlieffen plan
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1910
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battles of tannenberg forest and masurian lakes
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1910
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turkey enters war on the side of the central powers
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1910
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western front established from english channel to switzerland
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1910
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beginning of trench warfare along the W-front
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1910
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first use of poison gas at the second battle of Y pres
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1910
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italy declares war on austria-hungary
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1910
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ill-fated gallipoli campaign
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1910
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battle of verdun and the somme
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1910
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battle of jutland
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1910
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woddrow wilson reelected president of the united states
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1910
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zimmerman telegram
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1910
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germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
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1910
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united states enters the war against the central powers, as an associated power
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1910
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treaty of bret-litovsk; russia leaves the war
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1910
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russia revolution
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1910
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albert einstein's theory of relativity
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1910
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woodrow wilson's fourteen points
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1910
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major german offensive on the western front fails
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1910
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kaiser wilhelm II abdicates
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1910
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germany asks for armistice
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1910
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WWI ends on november 11
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1910
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german republic proclaimed
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1910
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russian civil war
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1910
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oswald spengler predicts the death of western civilization on the decline of the west
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1910
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paris peace conference
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1910
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weimar constitution adopted in germany
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1910
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versailles peace treaty with germany
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1910
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league of nations covenant signed
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1910
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german national assembly drafts the weimar constitution
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1910
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rusian civil war ends
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1920
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lenin introduces the new economic policy
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1920
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t.s. eliot portrays postwar european culture as a wasteland
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1920
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washington naval conference
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1920
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rapallo treaty between germany and the soviet union
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1920
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beer hall (munich) putsch
led by adolf hitler |
1920
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ruhr occupation triggers great inflation in germany
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1920
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lenin dies; power struggle between leon trotsky and joseph stalin
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1920
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locarno treaties between germany, france, and belgium.
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1920
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general strike in great britain
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1920
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kellogg-briand pact
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1920
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soviet union abandon's lenin's NEP and implements the first five year plan
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1920
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stalin succeeds lenin as the leader of the soviet union
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1920
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lateran accord between italy and the papacy
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1920
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great depression begins in USA
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1920
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beginning of presidential dictatorship in germany
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1930
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japan invades manchuria
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1930
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2nd 5-year plan in soviet union
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1930
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hitler appointed chancellor in germany
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1930
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germany reichstag passes enabling act
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1930
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hitler repudiates the disarmament clauses of the versailles treaty
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1930
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john maynard keynes publishes "general theory of employment, interest, and money"
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1930
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spanish civil war
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1930
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japan invades china
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1930
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3rd 5-year plan begins in teh soviet union
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1930
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munich conference
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1930
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hitler invades poland
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1930
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nazi-soviet nonagression pact
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1930
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great britain and france declare war on germany
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1930
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winter war between the soviet union and finland
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1930
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germany invades denmark and norway
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1940
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germany invades the netherlands, belgium, and france
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1940
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battle of britain
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1940
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atlantic charter
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1940
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germany invades the soviet union
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1940
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germany invades the soviet union
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1940
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japan attacks pearl harbor
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1940
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united states declares war on japan
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1940
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germany declares war on the US
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1940
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wannsee conference
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1940
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battle of midway
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1940
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battle of stalingrad
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1940
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allied victory in north africa
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1940
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allied invasion of sicily and italy
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1940
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mussolini deposed
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1940
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italy joins allies
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1940
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d-day, allied invasions of europe
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1940
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battle of the bulge
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1940
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yalta conference
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1940
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germany surrenders
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1940
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potsdam conference
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1940
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atom bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki
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1940
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japan surrenders
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1940
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george f. kennan's long telegram
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1940
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truman doctrine launches the era of the containment in the cold war
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1940
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marshall plan offers economic aid to europe
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1940
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communists force out of coalition governments in france and italy
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1940
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formation of the communist information bureau (cominform)
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1940
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communist coup in czechoslovakia
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1940
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berlin blockade and berlin airlift
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1940
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federal republic founded
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1940
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north atlantic treaty organization created (nato)
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1940
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sovient union becomes an atomic power
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1940
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people's republic of china founded
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1940
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korean war
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1950
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death of stalin
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1950
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uprising in germany
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1950
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french defeat at dien bien phu marks the end of the war in indochina
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1950
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vietnam divided into two states at geneva conference
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1950
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west germany becomes a member of NATO
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1950
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creation of the warsaw treaty organization
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1950
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khrushchev's speech denouncing stalin at the 20th party congress of the communist party of the soviet union
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1950
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workers unrest in poland
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1950
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hungarian revolution and soviet intervention
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1950
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suez crisis
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1950
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soviet union opens a space race with the launching of sputnik
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1950
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construction of the berlin wall
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1960
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cuban missile crisis
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1960
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de gaulle vetoes british membership in the EEC
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1950
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franco-german treaty signed
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1960
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west german chancellor konrad adenauer retires after fourteen years in office
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1960
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khrushchev forced to retire, replaced by brezchnev
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1960
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grand coalition of the CDU and SPD in germany ends 17 years of conservative government
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1960
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degaulle announces french withdrawal from nato
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1960
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military seizes power in greece
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1960
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eec, ecsc, and euratom combine to become the european community
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1960
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