| A MAP OF TIME |
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| 1919–1946 | League of Nations |
| 1945 | United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund established |
| 1960 | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries founded |
| 1962 | Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring |
| 1963 | Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique |
| 1967 | Six-day Arab-Israeli war |
| 1970 | Greenpeace established |
| 1973–1974 | Arab members of OPEC place an embargo on oil exports to the West |
| 1979 | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted by UN; Iranian revolution |
| 1982 | Law of the Sea Convention establishes international agreement about the uses of the world’s oceans |
| 1994 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) enacted |
| 1995 | World Trade Organization created |
| 1997 | Kyoto protocol on global warming introduced |
| 2001 | September 11 attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon |
| 2008 | Global economic crisis begins |
| 2011 | Osama bin Laden killed |
| 2013–2014 | The Islamic State, a radical jihadist organization, proclaims a new caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq |
| 2014 | Tunisia’s new constitution enshrines many rights of women; World Bank declares China the world’s largest economy; People’s Climate March in conjunction with the UN-sponsored Leaders Climate Summit |