for Eurocentrics:
1905 Japan defeats Russia.
→ Russian attention shifts to Balkans.
1914 Parliament dissolves in China.
→ Russia mobilizes; Great War begins.
1941 Japan attacks USA.
→ USA enters war against Germany.
1950 Korea attacks itself.
→ ‘NAT’ gains an ‘O’ and rearms.
1954 Vietnamese defeat French.
→ West Germany rearms and joins NATO (1955).
1956 Japanese and Soviets issue peace declaration.
→ Hungarians revolt against Soviets.
1956 Egypt is attacked and defeats attackers (France, Israel, UK).
→ European Common Market is established (1957).
1973 Vietnamese defeat USA.
→ October War and oil embargo divide West.
for Orientalists:
1895 Russian attention shifts to East Asia.
→ Japan defeats China.
1898 USA defeats Spanish empire.
→ USA attention shifts to East Asia and acquires overseas empire.
1933 Hitler made German chancellor.
→ Japan leaves League of Nations.
1936 Spain attacks itself.
→ Japan signs Anti-Comintern Pact.
1949 Soviets test atomic weapon.
→ Chinese Communists defeat Nationalists.
1955 Asians et al. unite at Bandung.
→ Europeans unite divisively at 1) Warsaw; and 2) Messina.
1997 Bill Clinton begins self-destructive second term.
→ Asian financial crisis
2022 Russia attacks Ukraine.
→ [t.b.a.]