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Events post World War II
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Indian Indenpencdence act
Was an act of the parliament of the united kingdom that partitioned British india into two new countrys
india and pakistan -
Creation of Isreal
U.N. creates jewish homeland in Palistine
Isreal is considered to be the jewish homland -
Vietnam War
November 1st 1955 - April 30th 1975
took place in Loas, Cambodia, Vietnam
between North Vietnam and United States.
North vietnam was uspported by the soviet union. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
october 14th-28th
Soviets secretely build missile site in cuba, the sites were discovered by a US spy plane, US saw this as a threat. US demands the removel, US puts a navel blockade around cuba.
Soviets agree to remove missiles if US dosen't invade cuba. -
Six Day War
Was fought between june 5th - june 10th
by Isreal
Eygpt,Sryia,and jordon(know as the united arab republic at the time) -
SALT
Treaty signed the United States and the Soviet Union led to the anit-ballistics missile treaty limits the number of ICBMs a country could have. -
Yom Kippur War
October 6-25 1973
took place by Suez Canal, Golden Heights
Eygpts stated goal for the was the complete destruction of isreal
Yom Kippur is the holiest day in judaism
the arab colation had launched a joint surprise attack on isreali positons -
Assinations of Egyiption Preisdent Sadat
Was a musilm
was killed by a musilum extreamest -
collapse of the sovirt union
Dissolution of the soviet union into independent republics. -
Fall of the Berlin wall
A barrier that divided Berlin from 1961-1989
Constuctued by the German Democratic Republic
completely cutting off west Berlin from surrounding east Germany
Hungary allows vacationing East Germans to travel to Asutria
