1969
Announcement of Vietnamization
1970
Cambodian Incursion
1972
Nixon's trip to China
1973
Arab Oil Shock
1974
President Nixon resigns
1975
Fall of Saigon
1978
Pope John Paul II elected
1979
Iranian Revolution
1980
Solidarnosc founded in Poland
1982
Death of Leonid Brezhnev
1983
�Star Wars� speech
1985
Mikhail Gorbachev leads Soviet Communist Party
1988
Iran and Iraq declare truce after eight year war
1989
Opening of the Berlin Wall
1990
Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
1991
August Coup fails to stop soviet collapse
1992
Death of Mohammed Najibullah
1994
Rwandan Genocide
1996
Taliban occupy Kabul
1998
Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
1999
Kosovo War
2000
Contested Presidential Election
1998
Opening of the US War in Afghanistan
2003
Overthrow of Saddam Hussein
2003
Execution of Saddam Hussein
2007
�The Surge� in Iraq
2008
Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggers banking crisis
2009
Highest unemployment since the 1980's
2010
Affordable Care Act enacted by Congress
2011
Abbottabad Raid
2014
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declares himself Caliph Ibrahim