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Post War Timeline
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Indian Independence
was as an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that seperated British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. -
Berlin Airlift
1 April 1948 – 12 May 1949, The Berlin Airlift was the plan to bail out Western Europe in order to save them from communism by flying over West Berlin, dropping supplies. -
Korean War
North Korea inavdes South Korea. The UN sends troops for back up and they push back. China intervenes on North Korea's behalf and it ultimately ends in a cease fire. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries due to fears of Soviet aggression. -
Arab-Israeli Conflict (1956)
On July 26, 1956, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal Company, and closed the canal to Israeli shipping.Israel responded on October 29, 1956, by invading the Sinai Peninsula with British and French support. During the Suez Crisis, Israel captured the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula. The United States and the United Nations soon pressured it into a ceasefire. -
Launch Of Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite and marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. The US followed up witha launch of their own a year later. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and was the moment when the two came closest to nuclear conflict.The aftermath involves Castro's new found dependency on soviet support as well as devastation to the Cuban economy. -
Arab-Israeli Conflict (Six-Day War)
The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. Israeli domestic policies became a lot more complicated after the military successes of June 1967. -
Arab-Israeli Conflict (Yom Kippur War)
Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to throw occupying Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights. Israel counterattacked and recaptured the Golan Heights. A cease-fire went into effect on October 25, 1973. -
Tiananmen Square Masacre
troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in Beijing, which student and other demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
