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Indian Independence
Act if parliment of the United Kingdom. It split British India into two new indepedent territories of India and Pakistan -
Creation of Israel
Israel is the worlds only Jewish state and the U.S middle easts only liberal democracy that Jews Muslims and Christians called home. Soon after it was attacked by five arab armies from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraqu but were repulsed. -
Berlin Aircraft
Berlin Aircraft was One of the most intense crisis in cold war. the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.It was created to take supplies to west berlin. -
Formation of NATO
NATO formed 12 nations including the U.S and Canada. It defensive formed due to fears of the soviet agression. A security act saying that a military attack against any of the signations would be attacking them all. -
Launch of Sputnik
Soviets launch the first artificial earth sateilite called Sputnik. It was used as intercontinental ballistic missile. U.S responded by pouring money into science education. -
Cuba Bay Pigs
CIA trains anti-castro cuban to invade south coast of cuba. Its goals were to overthrow the government, Yet the U.S didnt provide necessary support, it convinced the soviets that the U.S wont resist their expansion into latin america invaders are soon easily invaded. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
in 1962 soviets secretly build missile sites in cuba. Most were discovered by U.S spy plan. They viewed the missile crisis as a threat by the U.S towards the end soviets agreed to remove the missiles if the U.S doesnt invade cuba. -
Assassination of Egyptian president
Egyptian president was assassinted during a parade for the celebration of operation Badr. The assassination was taken control by memebers of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad -
Tiananmen square protest
Students protested to demand political reform, ceded with German territories in China to Japan rather than returning them to China after WWI. -
Assaination of Israeli prime minister begin
Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated towards ther end of a rally in support of the Oslo accords at the kings of Israel square in Tel Aivi. He was killed by a terrorist anmed Yigal Amir and told the judge that the assassination was suppose to halt the peace proccess.
