Ch. 30 The West at the Dawn of the 21st century By Sophiemj May 2, 1930 Ho Chi Minh Nat'list mvmt vs France May 2, 1939 S. Ireland Bombing campaign vs. N Ireland May 2, 1942 CS Lewis Screwtape letters May 2, 1945 Minh declare independence of Vietnam under the Viet Minh May 2, 1947 Indian Independence May 2, 1947 Vietnam civil war outbreak May 2, 1947 Cominform May 2, 1947 LEGOS- Denmark May 2, 1948 National Health Service-GB May 2, 1948 Berlin Wall established May 2, 1949 Southern Ireland becomes a Republic May 2, 1949 Soviet realism -Bread by ablonskaya May 2, 1950 Jackson Pollock's One Period: May 2, 1950 to May 2, 1953 Korean War May 2, 1955 Geneva Conference Period: May 2, 1956 to May 2, 1960 "Peaceful Coexistence" May 2, 1957 Launch of Sputnik May 2, 1959 Tours for Khrushchev and Western Leaders planned, American aircraft shot down over Soviet land May 2, 1959 De Gaulle President of France May 2, 1960 Founding of the EFTA May 2, 1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (US, USSR) May 2, 1968 Brezhnev Doctrine May 2, 1968 Student Riots in Paris May 2, 1975 Veietnam unifiend under North Vietnamese control (communist) May 2, 1979 Invasion of Afghanistan May 2, 1979 Islamic Revolution May 2, 1980 SOLIDARITY May 2, 1985 Gorbachev in power perestroika, glasnost May 2, 1986 Chernobyl May 2, 1989 Velvet Revolution May 2, 1989 Revolutions spread May 2, 1990 Yeltsin in Power May 2, 1990 Croatia and Slovenia declare themselves independent May 2, 1991 Treaty of Maastricht proposed Euro May 2, 1995 Dayton Agreement settles Bosnian crisis May 2, 1999 war breaks out in Kosovo May 2, 2000 Putin elected president of Russian Federation Sep 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks