Era · 1945 – present
From the Cold War and the Space Race to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the world we live in today.
The uprising ended without a peace settlement after roughly 3,000 Palestinian and 1,000 Israeli deaths; it left the Oslo process in ruins and led to the West Bank barrier and Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
The Netherlands became the first country in the world to allow same-sex couples to marry on the same terms as opposite-sex couples.
About 13,800 to 20,000 people were killed and around 400,000 homes destroyed; Gujarat created a new disaster management authority and rebuilt Kutch.
The Taliban were overthrown in 2001 but fought a long insurgency and retook power in August 2021 as US and allied forces withdrew.
2,977 people were killed and the World Trade Center destroyed; the United States launched the War on Terror, beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan.
About 8,100 probable cases and 774 deaths in 29 countries; the outbreak was contained by July 2003 through isolation and quarantine.
Hundreds of thousands died and over two million were displaced; the conflict led to the first ICC arrest warrants against a sitting head of state.
The invasion toppled Saddam Hussein within weeks, but no weapons of mass destruction were found and Iraq descended into insurgency and sectarian war before US forces left in 2011.
China became the third country, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to send a human into orbit on its own spacecraft.
All seven astronauts died; the shuttle fleet was grounded for two and a half years and its retirement was decided.
An estimated 70,000 excess deaths across Europe; France and other countries introduced national heatwave warning and care plans.
About 26,000 people were killed, most of the city destroyed and the Arg-e Bam citadel badly damaged; Bam was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in danger in 2004.
