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| The Nationalists are defeated from the north in 1949 | |
| Widespread riots in 1978 send the Shah packing in favor of the Ayatollah | |
| 500,000 non-violent protesters flood this country's historic capital in what is later dubbed the 'Velvet Revolution' | |
| A communist offshoot siezes power in 1975 and heads down an ill-concieved path toward 'utopia,' that leads its people into the countryside and the 'killing fields' | |
| This sub-Saharan colony becomes a cold war 'hot-zone' in 1961, and gains a bittersweet independence with the unsuccesful Alvor Agreement of 1975 | |
| The 26th of July movement gives the Soviets a friend near America's shores | |
| Holy warriors with American weapons turn this region into the Soviet Union's 'Vietnam' | |
| The Solidarity Movement and worker strikes lead to free elections in 1989 | |
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| Ill-fated revolutionaries in this country bear the brunt of the Brezhnev Doctrine in 1956 | |
| Ceausescu's heavy handed tactics in the massacre at Timisoara lead quickly to the collapse of his dictatorship | |
| Three major powers were pushed out of this region between 1945 and 1975 | |
| Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas sieze power here in 1979, much to the chagrin of the United States | |
| The MNLA, comprised mainly of ethnic Chinese, embrace communism and guerilla tactics in a costly struggle against the Commonwealth | |
| A communist coup d'etat ousts a 'messianic' Emperor; government repression, civil war, and famine follow | |
| CIA backed rebels fight against socialist reform and outside rule; the result is much bloodshed and the exile of a holy man | |
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