Saturn and Outer Planet Waves
If we look at any of the turning points in history Saturn appears in quadrate alignments with any of the three outer planets. To be more detailed, Saturn appears at a number of quadrate alignments over a period of years that lead up to aforementioned turning point. How this appears in parallel to these times is covered in the Trigger Effect found below. What we need to know here is that Saturn's interaction with the outer planets seems to works within a century to tie once or twice a century event to other centuries.

The reason why Saturn appears throughout some many historical crossroads comes from the wave Saturn waves connect humanity to history. ((Saturn and the Human Condition)) that precedes this section reveal how Saturn's close tie to the human growth cycle shows again how people make history rather than the other way around. Here we can see how the process of measuring history moves away from the natural assumption that planetary interactions predetermine our behavior. Saturn's connection to humanity ties it to the capricousness that people display tend toward. It shows how history rotates around the split-second decisions we all make that alters the path we take in a lifetime. It also exhibits the irony of life. Astrologers classify Saturn, with good reason, with structure, foundation and discipline. But since Saturn in relation to the outer planets connotes the anthropogenic side of history, Saturn also relates to how unpredictable any us can be.

Saturn waves vary between thirty-one and forty-five years. This means that their ((quadrate alignments)) appear between two to three times a century. This reflects the reality that major historical events only occur a few times in a hundred year period. What helps even more is how quadrate alignments connect to one another. More complex examples appear at the end of this section but this one serves to gain bearings.
Cold War
The Cold War and 1948Saturn-Pluto1981 have an almost direct correspondance. Yes, some could argue that the Cold War lasted into the 1980s, but certainly the USSR of that decade hardly held the clout it did in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

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The quadrate alignments (there are five) appear in the following order with events associated with years of occurrence. Give a one to two year leeway on either side of a given year.

1948-(0°/360°): Events surrounding this year center around the USSR exhibiting its muscle by fomenting communist regimes around the world and a US lead coalition pushing back. NATO, for example, was described "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." In and around these years Mao established The People's Republic of China, South and North Korea became separate, opposing countries. The list simply grows from here, but in summary the post-war chaos put the Soviet Union in a position to leverage its gains during the war. Since this time appears the 0°/360° mark see this time as a seed moment.

1954-(90°):

1965-(180°):

1972-(270°): Here we begin to see how capitalism undermined the Communist Bloc. Nixon opened relations to China

1981-(360°/0°):

Saturn Pluto Waves
Duration: 31/36 Years
Saturn Neptune Waves
Duration: 38 Years
Saturn Uranus Waves
Duration: 45 Years

A Trigger Effect
Some Examples
1390s
French Revolution