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| 1977 |
| | | Zia ul-Haq, the Chief of Army Staff, takes power in a bloodless coup against the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat, the Egyptian president, travels to Jerusalem to propose a peace plan to the Israelis | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin sign an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty at Camp David in the USA | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Demonstrations take place throughout Iran, demanding Islamic rule under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat share the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge | |
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| 1979 |
| | | An Islamic revolution forces the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to flee from Iran | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini receives a rapturous welcome on his return to Iran to head the Islamic Revolutionary Committee | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Ex-president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan for allegedly authorizing the murder of a political opponent | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Communist measures in Afghanistan provoke a Muslim jihad and the murder of more than 100 Russians in Herat | |
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