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The General National Congress changes the provisional name of Libya to the State of Libya, pending the adoption of a new constitution. [54] 1 July: Croatia joins the European Union. 24 October: The Republic of Cape Verde changes its official English name to the Republic of Cabo Verde, [55] following precedents set by Côte d'Ivoire and Timor ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
The Sexual revolution: A change in sexual morality and sexual behavior throughout the Western world, mainly during the 1960s and 1970s. The Chinese Cultural Revolution : A struggle for power within the Chinese Communist Party , which grew to include large sections of Chinese society and eventually brought the People's Republic of China to the ...
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
Department of Energy : After comparing the U.S. energy crisis to war, Carter created the Department of Energy, the first new Cabinet position in more than a decade. Nuclear power plant meltdown ...
This article lists times that items were renamed due to political motivations. Such renamings have generally occurred during conflicts: for example, World War I gave rise to anti-German sentiment among Allied nations, leading to disassociation with German names. An early political cartoon lampooning the name change of hamburger meat during ...
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present. [1] In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity.