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All Events of the Late Cold War and After, 1970 to 1999

This group gathers events that began between 1970 to 1999, placed among the events of The Contemporary World. From 1970 to 1999 coups, revolutions and wars marked the late Cold War, and genocide and crisis followed its end. An event belongs here when its cited article gives a start date inside this span. It excludes events that began earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same period, and it does not turn on how large or famous an event was.

All Events of the Late Cold War and After, 1970 to 1999
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Wikipedia: Black Monday (1987)
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stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987
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Wikipedia: Dot-com Bubble
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developed during the late 1990s and peaked on March 10, 2000
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Fall of the Berlin Wall (Wikipedia)
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The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 during the Peaceful Revolution
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1997 Asian financial crisis (Wikipedia)
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It began in Thailand in July 1997
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Latin American debt crisis (Wikipedia)
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was a financial crisis that originated in the early 1980s
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Wikipedia: Gwangju Uprising
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The Gwangju Uprising, also known in South Korea as the May 18 Democratization Movement (Korean: 5·18 민주화 운동), was a series of student-led demonstrations that took place in Gwangju, South Korea, in May 1980, against the coup d'état of May Seventeenth by Chun Doo-hwan that strengthened his power.
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Rwandan Genocide (Wikipedia)
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The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.
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Iranian Revolution, Wikipedia
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The Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution, culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
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Cambodian genocide, Wikipedia
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It resulted in the deaths of approximately 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, around 25% of Cambodia's population in 1975 (c.
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Chernobyl disaster, Wikipedia
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On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded.
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Wikipedia: Iran-Iraq War
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The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Imposed War, Eight-Year War, or Sacred Defense by Iran, began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980.
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Wikipedia: Soviet-Afghan War
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The Soviet-Afghan War took place in Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989.
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Wikipedia: Falklands War
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The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week war in the South Atlantic in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over possession of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and its dependencies of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Wikipedia: 1973 Chilean coup d'etat
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The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government.
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Wikipedia: Soweto uprising
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The Soweto uprising, also known as the Soweto riots or the Soweto rebellion, was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976.
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Wikipedia: 1999 war in Dagestan
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The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions (Russian: Война в Дагестане), was an armed conflict that began when the Ichkerian-based Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), an Islamist group led by Shamil Basayev, Ibn al-Khattab, Ramzan Akhmadov and Arbi Barayev, invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan on 7 August 1999.
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