The Cold War
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)
- Abimael Guzman
- Able Archer 83: The Near-Nuclear Accident
- Ahmed Ben Bella
- Ahmed Sekou Toure
- Alberto Fujimori
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Alfredo Stroessner
- Algerian Independence
- Ali Khamenei
- Angolan War of Independence
- Apollo 11: Moon Landing
- Argentina's Dirty War — State Terrorism and the Proceso
- Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero
- Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Augusto Pinochet
- Bay of Pigs Invasion — Failed CIA-Sponsored Operation
- Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
- Biafran Secession and the Nigerian Civil War
- Bloody Sunday
- Brazil's Military Coup and the 21-Year Dictatorship (1964–1985)
- CIA Overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala (Operation PBSUCCESS)
- Cambodian Genocide: The Killing Fields
- Camp David Accords
- Carnation Revolution
- Che Guevara's Bolivian Campaign and Capture
- Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
- Chinese Communist Revolution: Founding of the People's Republic
- Chinese Cultural Revolution
- Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Congo's Independence
- Construction of the Berlin Wall
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- César Chávez
- Death of Stalin and the Thaw
- Delano Grape Strike
- Delano to Sacramento March
- Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening-Up
- Efrain Rios Montt
- Egypt Joins the Gulf War Coalition
- El Bogotazo and La Violencia
- El Salvador Civil War — US-Backed Junta vs. FMLN
- Election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II — First Polish Pope
- Elizabeth II
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
- Ethiopian Famine (1983–1985)
- F. W. de Klerk
- Faisal ibn Abdulaziz
- Falklands/Malvinas War
- Fall of Saigon: Vietnam Reunified Under Communism
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Ferdinand Marcos
- Fidel Castro
- First Intifada
- Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States
- Founding of the Organisation of African Unity
- François Mitterrand
- Fulgencio Batista
- Gaddafi's Coup — Al-Fateh Revolution
- George F. Kennan
- Ghana's Independence
- Gorbachev Comes to Power: Glasnost and Perestroika
- Greek Civil War
- Guinea Rejects the French Community
- Haile Selassie
- Hannah Arendt
- Helsinki Accords
- Henry Kissinger
- Hosni Mubarak
- Hungarian Revolution
- INF Treaty: Eliminating an Entire Class of Nuclear Weapons
- IRA Hunger Strikes
- Idi Amin Dada
- Idi Amin Expels Uganda's Asian Community
- Idi Amin's Military Coup in Uganda
- Indian Independence and Partition
- Indonesian Mass Killings and Suharto's Seizure of Power
- Indonesian National Revolution
- Iran-Contra Affair — Arms for Hostages Linking Iran, Nicaragua, and the White House
- Iranian Hostage Crisis
- Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
- Jan Palach
- Jan Palach's Self-Immolation
- Japan's Postwar Economic Miracle
- Japanese Surrender and SCAP Occupation
- John F. Kennedy
- John Lennon
- John Paul II's 1979 Pilgrimage to Poland — Catalyst for Solidarity
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Jorge Rafael Videla
- João Goulart
- Juan Carlos I of Spain
- Juan Manuel Santos
- Juan Perón
- Juliana of the Netherlands
- Jupiter IRBM Missiles Installed in Turkey
- Juvenal Habyarimana
- Kenya's Independence
- Khmer Rouge Seize Phnom Penh
- Konrad Adenauer
- Korean War
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Laurent-Desire Kabila
- Lech Walesa
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Leopoldo Galtieri
- Lockerbie Bombing — Pan Am Flight 103
- Manuel Marulanda
- Manuel Noriega
- Mao Zedong
- March on Washington and the 'I Have a Dream' Speech
- Marcos Declares Martial Law in the Philippines
- Marcos Pérez Jiménez
- Marshall Plan Announced
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- McCarthyism and the Red Scare
- Mengistu Haile Mariam
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- Mozambican War of Independence
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Mubarak Assumes Power after Sadat's Assassination
- Mujahideen Insurgency — Operation Cyclone and CIA/Pakistan Backing
- NATO Founded
- Nasser Executes Sayyid Qutb — Martyrdom that Globalised Jihadism
- Neil Armstrong
- Nicolae Ceauşescu
- Nigeria's Independence
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nixon's Opening to China
- Nnamdi Azikiwe
- OPEC Founded in Baghdad
- Oscar Romero
- PLO Founded
- Pacem in Terris — John XXIII's Encyclical on Nuclear Disarmament
- Paris Peace Accords — Vietnam
- Park Chung-hee
- Park Chung-hee's Coup and South Korea's Developmental State
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- Patrice Lumumba
- Paul Kagame
- Paul VI's Vatican Ostpolitik — Opening to Communist States
- People Power Revolution: Marcos Falls in the Philippines
- Pinochet's Coup Against Allende — Operation Condor Context
- Pius XII's Decree Excommunicating Catholics Who Supported Communism
- Pol Pot
- Pope John Paul II
- Pope John XXIII
- Pope Paul VI
- Post-War Displaced Persons — Europe's Refugees and the DP Camps
- Potsdam Conference
- Prague Spring and Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Pérez Jiménez Takes Power in Venezuela
- Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
- Revolutions of 1989: Eastern Europe's Annus Mirabilis
- Richard Nixon
- Rise of Peron and Argentine Military Politics
- Romanian Revolution and Execution of Ceausescu
- Ronald Reagan
- SALT I and the Era of Détente
- Salvador Allende
- Sandinista Revolution and the Contra War in Nicaragua
- Sayyid Qutb
- Sayyid Qutb Publishes Milestones — The Manifesto of Jihadist Islamism
- Secret Removal of Jupiter Missiles from Turkey — Cuban Missile Crisis Resolution
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- Six-Day War
- Slobodan Milošević
- Solidarity Movement in Poland
- Soviet Military Invasion of Afghanistan — December 1979
- Soviet Union Tests First Atomic Bomb
- Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Soweto Uprising
- Sputnik: The Space Race Begins
- Stroessner's Coup: Paraguay's 35-Year Dictatorship Begins
- Suez Crisis
- Tet Offensive
- Thai Student Uprising of 1973
- The Bangladesh Liberation War
- The Colombian Armed Conflict
- The Congo Crisis
- The Cuban Revolution — Fall of Batista and Rise of Castro
- The Ethiopian Revolution and the Derg
- The Guatemalan Civil War
- The Iran-Iraq War
- The Iranian Revolution — Khomeini's Islamic Republic
- The Petrodollar Globalisation of Wahhabism
- The Shining Path Insurgency
- The Sri Lankan Civil War
- The Thatcher Era (1979–1990)
- The Troubles Begin
- The US Invasion of Panama
- Truman Doctrine
- US Bombing of Tripoli — Operation El Dorado Canyon
- US Civil Rights Act
- US Invasion of Grenada — Operation Urgent Fury
- US Military Intervention in the Dominican Republic
- Ugandan Independence
- United Farm Workers Founded
- Velupillai Prabhakaran
- Vietnam War Escalation: US Combat Troops Deploy
- Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia: Fall of the Khmer Rouge
- Warsaw Pact Founded
- Watson and Crick
- Watson and Crick Discover the Double Helix — Structure of DNA
- Yom Kippur War and Oil Crisis
- Yoshida Shigeru
- Yuri Andropov
- Zbigniew Brzezinski