A Map of Time
1. 1923–1938
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
2. 1947
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
3. 1948
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
4. 1949
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
5. 1955
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
6. 1959
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
7. 1967
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
8. 1973
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
9. 1979
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
10. 1994
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war
11. 2011
-------- OPEC oil embargo Arab Spring in the Middle East Independence of India/Pakistan Turkey’s secular modernization initiated under Kemal Ataturk Revolution in Iran End of apartheid in South Africa; genocide in Rwanda Independence of Indonesia; communist victory in China Establishment of state of Israel; apartheid formally established in South Africa Cuban revolution Bandung Conference of nonaligned nations Six day Arab/Israeli war