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Winston Churchill birth
He was a British politician, army officer and wtiter, he was Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945 and led Britain to victory in WW2, joined with the Soviet Union. He is considered the greatest political figure in 20th-century Britain and a national hero. His speeches stirred Britain to continue fighting. -
1917 crisis
Simultaneous challenges that endangered the government and even the Restoration system itself: a military movement (the Defense Boards), a political movement (the Assembly of Parliamentarians that took place in Barcelona called by the Regionalist League), and a social movement (the revolutionary general strike) -
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Weimar republic
The Weimar Republic (German: Weimarer Republik) was the political regime and, by extension, the period of German history from 1918 to 1933, following the country's defeat in World War I. -
Spartacist insurrection
The Spartacist Uprising (in German Spartakusaufstand) is known as the general strike and the armed struggles in Berlin from January 5 to 12, 1919, which, when suffocated, practically ended the November Revolution. in reality the Spartacist League, which later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), neither initiated nor led the uprising of workers and soldiers, but rather cooperated with the uprising once it had begun. -
Foundation of the National Fascist Party
The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, the highest expression of fascism and the only legal political formation during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, between 1925 and 1943. -
March on Rome
Mass demonstration of fascists bound for Rome organized by Mussolini, in it they managed to make him head of state. The march marked the end of the parliamentary system and the beginning of the fascist regime. -
The formation of the USSR
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was a federation of republics whose number was expanding. It was a multinational and multiethnic state
In 1924 the first Constitution of the USSR was approved. -
PRIMO DE RIVERA'S COUP
Primo de Rivera's coup d'état took place in Spain and was headed by the then Captain General of Catalonia Miguel Primo de Rivera. The consequence was the establishment of the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, thanks above all to the fact that King Alfonso XIII did not oppose the coup and appointed the rebel general as Head of the Government at the head of a military Directory. -
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Primo rivera dictatorship
On September 14, 1923, a state of war was declared, which would last until March 16, 1925. On September 15, the royal decree that established a military directory that assumed all the functions of the executive power was approved. Primo de Rivera became head of government and sole minister. -
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Stalin's dictatorship
After the death of Lenin in 1924, the direction of the party and the State came to be exercised by a group of leaders (Stalin, Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev...) But Stalin was imposing himself.
In the end Stalin got all the power and created a dictatorship. -
Landing of Alhucemas
Military landing carried out on September 8, 1925 in Alhucemas by the Spanish Army and Navy and, to a lesser extent, a French allied contingent, which would bring about the end of the Rif War. -
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Fascist italy
In 1921 Benito Mussolini created the Fascist National Party. The fascist strategy was violence. After the march on Rome he formed a government and in 1925 he established a dictatorship: he eliminated his opponents, all parties were banned and individual freedoms were suppressed. -
Fidel Castro death
Leader of the Cuban Revolution and president of Cuba, his communist domestic policies and realtions with the URSS led to strained relations with the US that culminated in the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile crisis. He created communist state in América. -
China civil war
The sides were the US-backed Chinese nationalist party and the USSR-backed communist party. The cause was the struggle for power. In 1949, the Communist Party took power and Mao Zedong proclaimed the people's republic in China, then signed an aid treaty with Stalin, as a result, a communist regime was established and the nationalists took refuge in Formosa. -
Black Thursday
Black Thursday took place on October 24, 1929, the day on which the New York Stock Market crash began and with it the Crash of 29 and the Great Depression. The crash of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday produced a situation of real panic that led to the subsequent banking crisis in the United States. -
Black tuesday
Black Tuesday was October 29, 1929, the day of a 12% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This index measures the performance of some of the main companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. -
San Sebastian pact
Meeting promoted by the Alianza Republicana that took place in San Sebastián on August 17, 1930, attended by representatives of almost all the Spanish republican parties and in which the strategy to put an end to the monarchy of Alfonso XIII and proclaim the Second Spanish Republic. -
Japan occupies Manchurria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan began on September 19, 1931, immediately after the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II and would lead to the founding of the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Constitution of 1931
It defined Spain as "a democratic Republic of workers of all kinds, which is organized in a regime of freedom and justice. It was approved on December 9, 1931 by the Constituent Cortes, after the Spanish general elections of 1931 that followed the proclamation of the Second Republic, and was in force until the end of the civil war in 1939. -
Events in CastilBlanco
The events of Castilblanco are known as the confrontation that took place in the Spanish town of Castilblanco (Badajoz), on December 31, 1931, between some peasants from the town and the Civil Guard that ended with the lynching of four members of that body. It was the beginning of a "tragic week" in the first biennium of the Second Republic. -
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The triumph of the Republic and the Reformist Biennium
The Second Republic is one of the key moments in contemporary Spanish history. The democratization and modernization project
After the Constitution was approved, a new period began with a government headed by Manuel Azaña and made up of left-wing republicans and socialists. The republican-socialist government undertook a broad program of reforms in an unfavorable economic context, marked by rising unemployment. -
Mijail Gorbachov,s birth
Last general secretary and head of the URSS, he tried to revitalise the URSS transform the URSS into a modern social democracy and restructure the soviet economy, but he failed and it led to the collapse of the URSS. -
The Nazi party wins the elections.
The Social Democrats also lost some 750,000 voters, the same number of voters the Communists won in this election. Strasser's camp in the Nazi Party gained more confidence, and he went so far as to declare that Hitler should give up the idea of being chancellor. -
Sanjurjo coup
The failed coup d'état that occurred in the early hours of August 10, 1932 against the Second Republic is known as the Sanjurjada. Led from Seville by General José Sanjurjo, only part of the Spanish Army took part in it, which meant its failure from practically the beginning. It constituted the first uprising of the Armed Forces against the Republic since its establishment in 1931 -
Adolf Hitler is elected German chancellor
Adolf Hitler is a German politician and dictator known for being the Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. His regime was based on National Socialism, which he developed while in prison due to the failed attempt, in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) . After the invasion of Poland, it caused the start of World War II -
The conservative Bienium
The conservative biennium spanned from November 1933 to February 1936. In the general elections held in November 1933, in which for the first time, as a result of the 1931 Constitution, women exercised their right to vote, the CEDA won. -
Reichstag fire
It was a fire perpetrated against the Reichstag building in Berlin, on February 27, 1933. The responsibility for the fire is still a subject of permanent debate and investigation.
The fire started in the Concession Hall of the Reichstag building, where the German parliament was located. -
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The Holocaust
It was the most brutal facet of Nazi racial policy, it was the premeditated, planned and systematic extermination of the Jewish communities in Europe. The persecution also affected gypsies and homosexuals -
October Revolution of 1934
Revolutionary strike movement that took place between October 5 and 19, 1934 during the second biennium of the Second Spanish Republic. It was a revolutionary strike movement that took place between October 5 and 19, 1934 during the second biennium of the Second Spanish Republic. -
Night of the long Knives
Also called Operation Hummingbird, it was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political assassinations in major German cities, such as Berlin and Munich. . -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
The Italian invasion of Ethiopia, also called the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, was a seven-month-long armed conflict fought between October 1935 and May 1936. It is seen as an example of the expansionist policy that characterized the Powers. of the Axis and the inefficiency of the League of Nations before the outbreak of the Second World War. -
The Berlin-Rome axis is formed
The Tripartite Pact of September 27, 1940, which established an alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan, was known as the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis or as the Axis alliance. These three countries recognized German hegemony over most of the European continent, Italian hegemony over the Mediterranean, and Japanese hegemony over East Asia and the Pacific. -
The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed
The Anti-Comintern Pact or Anti-Comintern Treaty was signed on November 25, 1936 between the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany, the document being relaunched and signed again on November 25, 1941, after the invasion of the USSR by Germany. In the document, the signatory nations undertook to take measures to safeguard themselves from the threat of the Communist International or Comintern, led by the Soviet Union. -
The Spanish Civil War begins
The Spanish Civil War or War of Spain, also known by the Spaniards as the Civil War par excellence, or simply the War, was a war conflict, which would later also have repercussions on a economic crisis, that was unleashed in Spain after the partial failure of the coup d'etat of July 17 and 18, 1936 perpetrated by a part of the armed forces against the Government of the Second Republic. -
Bombing of Guernica
The bombing of Guernica (Operation Rügen) was an air attack carried out on this Spanish population on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Legionary Aviation, who were fighting in favor of the rebel side against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. Current estimates of victims put the deceased in a range that covers from 120 to 300 dead. -
Germany invades Austria
Anschluss is a German word meaning "union" and, in a political context, "annexation". It was used to refer to the merger of Austria and Nazi Germany into a single nation on March 12, 1938 as a province of the Third Reich, moving from Österreich to Ostmark ("East Mark"). -
Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
After the Anschluss of Nazi Germany and Austria in March 1938, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's next goal was the annexation of Czechoslovakia. The pretext for it was the supposed needs suffered by the Germanic populations that inhabited the border regions with Czechoslovakia in the north and west, known collectively as the Sudetenland. -
Munich Conference
An agreement signed at the Munich conference in September 1938 ceded the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. The agreement was concluded between Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France. Czechoslovakia was not allowed to attend the conference. -
Night of the Broken Glass
The Night of Broken Glass (German: Kristallnacht or Novemberpogrome) was a series of lynchings and combined attacks that occurred in Nazi Germany (including Austria) during the night of November 9-10, 1938. -
Germany sign the non-agression pact
The German-Soviet pact, also known as the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact after the two foreign ministers who negotiated the deal, had two parts. The economic agreement, signed on August 19, 1939, stipulated that Germany would deliver manufactured goods in exchange for Soviet raw materials. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a ten-year non-aggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each of the signatories promised not to attack the other. -
USSR attacks Finland
Stalin pressured the Finnish government to give the USSR a strip of territory on the Karelian Isthmus, as well as to allow the installation of military bases. The Finnish refusal served as an excuse to invade the country on November 30, 1939. In this way, the so-called "Winter War" began. -
Appeasement policy
Appeasement policy is the name by which the conciliatory policy carried out by Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, before the Second World War, has historically been known. -
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The Axis Offensive
It begins with the invasion of Poland by Germany
It is characterized by lightning war, which achieves the invasion of almost all of Western Europe. Germany bombs Great Britain. Italy tries to invade Egypt and Greece but fails and Germany is forced to help her by sending in the Africa Korps. Germany attacks the USSR, breaking the non-aggression treaty. The US enters the war, provoked by Japan when it attacks Pearl Harbor. -
Germany invades Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action by Nazi Germany aimed at annexing Polish territory. The technical operation, known as "Case White" (in German, Fall Weiss), began on September 1, 1939 and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of the same year. It was the trigger for World War II in Europe and ended the Second Polish Republic. -
Nazi Germany attacks Denmark and Norway
Under the code name 'Operation Weserübung' Nazi Germany invades on April 9, 1940, Denmark and Norway. On the same day, Denmark surrenders and becomes occupied. This allows Germany to have a good base for the fight against Norway. The Norwegians hold out for two months, but surrender on June 9, 1940. France and Great Britain help Norway, but must withdraw when they themselves are attacked. -
Battle of the Netherlands
The Battle of the Netherlands was one of the battles fought during the Battle of France at the start of World War II. The battle began on May 10, 1940 and ended a week later, with the surrender of the Dutch government to Nazi Germany. Although much of the Dutch army was intact at the time of the surrender, the destruction of Rotterdam by German bombers forced an early capitulation. -
German invasion of Belgium
Despite being neutral at the beginning of the WWII, on May 10, 1940, it was forced to enter the war due to the invasion of German forces. After 18 days of combat, the Belgian army surrendered to the Germans. . The decision of Leopold III of Belgium not to offer resistance to the invasion caused a political crisis after the end of the war. However, after the defeat, many Belgians fled to the UK where they formed a government and army in exile to continue the fight. -
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Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the set of air battles fought in the British sky and over the English Channel, between July and October 1940 , when Nazi Germany sought to destroy the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in order to achieve the air superiority necessary to invade Britain: Operation Sea Lion. -
Italy attacks North Africa
The Campaign in North Africa was the second most important front during World War II, after the Eastern Front. It took place in the desert of North Africa, from June 10, 1940 to May 16, 1943. It included campaigns in Italian Libya and the Kingdom of Egypt. -
German invasion of the Soviet Union 1941
The attack on the Soviet Union, without prior declaration despite the non-aggression pact signed between Berlin and Moscow. The German invasion where millions of Jews lived caused it to enter the worst part of the genocide. The German authorities considered that the Jews had to be eliminated as they entered Soviet territory. -
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa), also known as the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, was the code name for the attempted invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and some of its allies, which began on Sunday June 22, 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union in order to repopulate it with Germans. -
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japan made a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.
The surprising Japanese maneuver caused consternation in the United States and led to the entry of this country into the war as part of the Allied side. -
Midway battle
In the Pacific, on June 4, 1942, Japan took Midway Island, where the Japanese and American fleets clashed. The American victory equaled the naval forces in this ocean. -
Wanasse conference
On January 20, 1942, near Berlin the details of the plan for the elimination of the Jews from Europe were agreed upon. This is proof of the systematic execution of Jews by the Nazis. This is called a final solution. -
Alamein Battle
In October 1942, British General Montgomery defeats General Rommel's troops in North Africa, the Afrika Korps surrenders in May 1943 -
Batlle of Stalingrado
The Battle of Stalingrad was a war between Soviet and German troops for control of Stalingrad, present-day Volgograd, in what is now Russia. It began on August 23, 1942 and ended on February 2, 1943, after the Germans surrendered to the armies of the Soviet Union. -
Final solution
It was the last stage of the Holocaust. It consisted of the massive, deliberate and systematic murder of the Roma Jews among others in Europe. Many Jews were killed before it started. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The naval battle of Guadalcanal was the main Japanese attempt to gain control of the seas around Guadalcanal or to retake control of the island. The inability to neutralize Henderson Field doomed the Japanese effort to successfully combat the Allied conquest of Guadalcanal. -
Kursk battle
The Battle of Kursk, also called Operation Citadel, gives its name to a series of armed clashes that took place in Russia in the context of World War II. In it, the troops of the German army would make the last offensive effort on the eastern front, grouping the bulk of their armored forces and their most modern weapons, passing through the most powerful units and their most prestigious generals, facing off against the troops of the German Army. Red. -
Frog jumping tactic
The frog-leap tactic was then developed: advancing from island to island to annihilate the Japanese positions or leave them totally isolated on the way to Japan. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan decided to surrender. -
Ardenas battle
Major German offensive, launched at the end of World War II, through the dense forests and mountains of the Ardennes region of Belgium and more specifically Wallonia. It was the last attack of Germany and it fails. It is said that it was Hitler's last bullet. -
Creation of the construction and development bank
Multinational organization specialized in finance and assistance. Its stated purpose is to reduce poverty through low-interest loans, interest-free loans at the bank level, and economic support to developing nations. -
Creation of the International Monetary Fund
It is an organization made up of 184 countries, which works to promote global monetary cooperation, ensure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote a high level of employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty. -
Normandy's landing
The Battle of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, was the Allied military operation during World War II that culminated in the liberation of Western European territories occupied by Nazi Germany. -
Adolf Hitler,s death
Politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He use his position as chancellor to impose a totalitarium dictatorship characterised by agressive, nationalist and xenophobic polices. He become German chancellor from 1933 to 1945. -
Creation of the ONU
International organization created after World War II to guarantee peace agreements. Its headquarters are in New York and its objectives are to maintain international peace and security, the right to self-determination of peoples, the defense of individual rights and peaceful cooperation among peoples. -
Postdam conference
Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Stalin met. The decisions were: Germany was divided into four zones, the denazification of Germany was approved and they were tried in the Nuremberg trials, war reparations for Germany were established and the borders of Poland were specified. -
Yalta conference
It brought together Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. The agreements were, the division of Germany into occupation zones and Stalin promised to hold free elections, the annexation of the Baltic countries and eastern Poland to the USSR was also confirmed. -
The Greek Civil War
Greece was in a civil war in which the communist partisans faced the monarchists. Finally, US economic and military cooperation ended up tipping the balance towards the monarchists. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
The United States Army dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, three days later, repeated the attack on Nagasaki. Respectively, it marked the immediate surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. -
The Nuremberg Trials
For the trials that took place in 1945 and 1946, Nuremberg in Germany was chosen. Judges from the Allied powers (Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States) presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death. -
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Cold War
System of international relations characterized by the rivalry between the USSR and the US, two blocks are formed, the eastern one led by the US and the western one led by the USSR. Direct war does not break out but intimidation is used, propagated... to impose their ideals. This war ends in 1991 after the disintegration of the USSR. -
Bennito Mussolini death
Politician and leader of the Italian facism. He formed the Facist Party and organised the Black Shirts. He made himself with the name Il duce. He imposed a facist totalitarium dictatorship in Italy. -
Surrender of japan
The surrender of Japan in World War II occurred on August 15, 1945 and was signed on September 2, 1945. The Empire of Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Union Soviet. -
Paris Conference
The Paris Conference of 1945 (November 9 to December 21), was a meeting held by the representatives of the Allied States to decide the war reparations to be imposed on Germany after its defeat in World War II. -
Marshall plan
An economic aid program financed by the US to help rebuild Western Europe, its objective was to prevent European insolvency, contain the spread of communism and create a structure that favored the establishment of democracy. It was very important for the European economic recovery. -
Truman doctrine
Containment foreign policy followed by the United States to prevent the spread of communism. It was imposed by Harry Truman, the US will support free countries to prevent them from falling into dictatorships and help capitalist countries. -
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First phase of the Cold War
The first years of the Cold War, between 1947 and 1953, were the hardest. Although there were others, two major crises stood out in this period: The Berlin blockade and the Korean War -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) –in English: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and in French: Organization du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)–, also called the Atlantic Alliance, North Atlantic Alliance or Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental military alliance -
Council for mutual economic aid
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was an economic cooperation organization formed around the USSR by various socialist countries whose objectives were the promotion of trade relations between member states, in an attempt to counteract the international economic organizations of capitalist economy. -
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The korean war
North Korea and South Korea, after a war of attrition where neither of the two parties managed to prevail, signed the Panmunjón armistice, which consolidated the existence of two States separated by a security strip controlled by NATO. (1950-1953) -
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Pacific coexistence
Term of international politics coined by the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to refer to the relations that the Soviet Union and the United States would maintain in the future within the so-called Cold War -
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Second stage of the Cold War
In 1953 there was a change of leadership of the two superpowers. General Eisenhower assumed the US presidency and Nikita Khrushchev was elected first secretary of the CPSU. A new stage was opened in the relations between the two blocs, which was called peaceful coexistence. However, despite lowering the tension between the superpowers, there were localized crises -
Crisis of the Suez canal
The sides were Great Britain, France and Israel against Egypt, the cause was the occupation by Great Britain and France of the Suez Canal. The US forces them to sign a ceasefire and accept the Egyptian government's decision. The US acted as a superpower, making its leadership clear and taking over control of the area. -
Hungarian revolution
Internal crisis in the communist bloc with the intervention of the USSR, the causes were the demonstrations demanding freedoms, the army supported the demonstrators, Hungary left the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet tanks put an end to the Hungarian pretensions, as a consequence the communist system was deposed . -
Cuban revolution
The sides were the army of Fidel Castro against the Dictatorship of Batista. The new government was seen as a threat to the Americans, in 1961 the Cuban allies invaded the Bay of Pigs to defeat the Catristas but failed, as a consequence Cuba moved closer to the USSR. -
Charles de Gaulle birth
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (French 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France (1940–44) and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–46). In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the President of France, a position he held until his resignation from him in 1969. He was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era and his memory of him continues to influence French politics -
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Vietnam War
It was a conflict between 1959 and 1975, within the framework of the Cold War, which pitted the Republic of South Vietnam and its ally the United States against the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, supported mainly by the Soviet Union and China. -
Berlin Wall
The western part of Berlin had a prosperous economy and its inhabitants enjoyed freedoms. On the other hand, the eastern part does not. The inhabitants of the eastern part fled to the western part. To stop the leaks, the authorities built a wall that divided Berlin for almost 30 years. -
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement is a group of States formed during the Cold War, the world geopolitical and ideological conflict of the second half of the 20th century that manifested itself with the indirect confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. The purpose of the MPNA was to preserve its neutral position and not ally with any of the superpowers already named -
Missile crisis
The sides were the US against Cuba supported by the USSR, the causes were the attempt by the USSR to install missiles in Cuba aimed at the US, Kennedy decreed the blockade of Cuba and threatened to invade it, Krunschev ordered the dismantling of the missiles and the US agrees not to invade the island, the consequences were the establishment of the red telephone. -
Star Wars
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a system proposed by United States President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground-based and space-based systems to defend the United States against nuclear attack with strategic ballistic weapons. The initiative was focused more on strategic defense than on offensive policy. -
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Third Stage of the Cold War
Between 1963 and 1973 there was a transition from detente to great tension between the blocs and there was a serious crisis, the Vietnam War. -
John. F. Kennedy assasination
Was an American politician and diplomat who served as the thirty-fifth president of the United States. He was also known as Jack by his friends or by his nickname JFK.
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Conflicts in the Middle East: Yom Kippur War
It was a military conflict waged by the coalition of Arab countries led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. With the exception of isolated attacks on Israeli territory on October 6 and 9, military combat actions during the war took place on Arab territory, especially in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Egypt and Syria wanted to recapture the Sinai and the Golan Heights, respectively. -
Mao Tse Tung death
Also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. -
Soviet invasion in Afghanistan
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, also known as the Soviet-Afghan War, was an armed conflict that began on December 26, 1979, and involved Soviet forces in support of the Marxist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), against fundamentalist insurgents.. -
GAL
The Antiterrorist Liberation Groups were vigilante groups that practiced state terrorism or "dirty war" against the terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna and its entourage between 1983 and 1987, at the order of the first two governments of Felipe González -
George Bush becames the 43rd president
George Walker Bush, better known as George W. Bush or George Bush, is a politician and American businessman who served as 43rd president of the United States of America between 2001 and 2009 -
Ronald Reagan death
Was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader