1) Holocaust 1933-1945 2) WW ll 1939-1945 3) Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941 4) Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943 5) D-day 1944 6) Founding of the UN 1945 7) Assassination of Ghandi 1948 8) Formation of NATO 1949 9) China becoming communist 1949 10) Start of Korean War 1950-1953 11) Queen Elizabeth ll Coronation 1953 12) Vietnam War 1955-1975
(I just randomly chose events that are sort of significant to the world)
One of the main arguments used to support US military involvement in Vietnam was the fear that if Vietnam fell to communism, other nations in Southeast Asia could as well.
