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Indian Independence
Every August 15 India has a national holiday selibrating their indepence from britiain. India gain their independence because the British empire in India could not control the country, so much so that it start making them loose money. -
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Berlin Airlift
The Soviet's put up a blockade that stopped transportation of anything between East and West Berlin. In response, the allies sent none stop supplies via aircrafts for a whole year untill the blockade was dropped. -
The Creation of Israel
David Ben-Gurion establish Israel as a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This Creations of a jewish homeland was to prevent future harassment that has happened so often in the past, but as you may know today that Arabs and Jews have been fight each other committing acts of terrorism and violence for years. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance of militaries that works together for a common defence against other parties. -
Sputink
The first man made satellite launched by the Soviet Union. This start the space race whitch lead to new military, technological, and scientific developments -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most escalated part of the Cold War and almost led to a nuclear war. This was because Soviet's put their missiles in Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This Crisis ended when the U.S. and Soviet Union made an agreement to remove their nuclear missiles from Cuba, Turkey, and Italy. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
A national treaty to help stop nuclear weapons from spreading and also disarm nuclear weapons. -
Assasination of Egyptain Pres. Sadat
Sadat was killed by a Egyptain Islamic Hijad member. Omar Abdel-Rahman was said to given the aproval of the assassination, and he was also involved in World Trade Center bombing. -
Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Begin
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Tiananmen Square Protest
Students striking and protesting in Tainanmen Square Beijing . This event is also know as the June 4 Massacre because of the large scale military enforcement that injured and kill hunderds to thousands of civilians all over beijing
