Cold War and Decolonization
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Timeline of significance of Cold War Contest: 1945-United Nations 1946-World Bank 1947-Truman Doctrine 1948-1952-Marshall Plan 1948-1949-Berlin Airlift 1949-NATO 1949-Soviet atomic test 1950-1953-Korean War 1952-Hydrogen test 1950's-Brinkmanship:"Smoking ruin" vs. "We Will bury you" 1954-DienBienPhu / Start of Vietnam War 1955-Warsaw Pact 1957-Sputnik 1961-Berlin Wall constructed 1961-Bay of Pigs CIA fail 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis 1965-Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1968-Tet Offensive 1968-Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1969-Man on the Moon 1970-EC (European Community) 1972-1975-Helsinki Accords 1975-Fall of Saigon
1946-Phillipines-USA 1947-Pakistan-India War over Kashmir 1948-Burma (Myanmar)-British 1949-1965-Sukarno in Indonesia-Dutch 1951-1954-CIA ousts Arbenz in Guatemala for United Fruit Co. interests 1952-MauMau Revolt in Kenya 1955-Bandung Conference of Third World "non-aligned" nations, hosted by Sukarno in Indonesia 1957-Ghana-British 1959-1990's-Castro/Che Guevara in Cuba 1960-French West African colonies 1962-Algeria-France 1964-Kenya-British 1971-Bangladesh 1975-Angola/Mozambique-Portugal 1980-Rhodesia->Zimbabwe-British Chaotic reigns'60s-90's-Seko in Congo / South Africa Mandela vs. apartheid 50's-90's
1958-Great Leap Forward FAIL, death of 30million 1966-1971-Cultural Revolution, policed by Red Guards, death of 1/2million, 3 mill purged 1971-Nixon visits China, who joins UN
1947-UN approves Israel in Palestine lands, 1948-Israel independent, setting Arabs against them for good. 1950's-Iraq, Egypt, Jordan free but still econ. dependent 1960-OPEC 1967-6 Day War-Israel strikes against Egypt/Syria to prevent attack 1973-US brokers cease-fire between Israel and Egypt 1974-Oil Crisis, as OPEC quadruples prices
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