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President Gamal Abdul Nasser took part of the Arab League, a group of Arab-speaking countries designed to promote Arab unity. The Arab League was formed in 1945 with the help of the British.
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WWII ended because the Axis powers surrendered.
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Famous speech told by Winston Churchill (UK Prime Minister) describing about the separation in Europe Warsaw Pact and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
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American policy that provided $ and military aid to Greece + Turkey since they were threatened by communism. In fact, it had been extended to be the basis of the Cold War policy of containment.
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Cold War Began
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UN had approved the plan for the partition of the British Mandate for Palestine.
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Jews in Tel Aviv (City) celebrated the proclamation of the new state of Israel, later on, the Arab nations that opposed the creation of a Jewish state invaded Israel and had begun the 1948 war.
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Britain ended the Palestine Mandate and later pulled out of the region, Israel had also declared itself an independent state in keeping up with the UN plan.
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Sent from America to Berlin, Europe’s capital, to fly in. It had about 2,400,000 tons of cargo.
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Israel had won a decisive victory.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation also known as NATO formed.
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North Korea invaded South Korea at the end North Korea was in Russia's side while the south was on the USA side.
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Mohammed Mossadeq was appointed premier, which meant he had to take power from the shah of Iran.
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Nasser helped to lead a military coup that overthrew the government.
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CIA assisted Iranian conspirators in overthrowing the nationalist Mossadegh government and returning the shah to power.
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Nasser started to take charge of Egypt.
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Treaty that helped any other democratic countries.
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When 150,000 US troops were sent to Vietnam.
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The Berlin wall built and the borders sealed between the East and the West of Germany.
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Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, he had crossed all of the Egyptian territories but had been controlled by the French and British.
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President Nasser of Egypt seized the Suez Canal from Britain and France.
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Opposition from other nations, including the United States, forced the invaders to withdraw.
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On this day in History, Soviet Union launches Sputnik with a diameter of 22 inches and it was the world's first artificial satellite.
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The USSR Sputnik II carried Laika, the dog, which was the first living creature to go into space.
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Syria joined with Egypt in to form the new Arab state, which later one became known as the United Arab Republic or the UAR.
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The US U-2 spy plane was shot down during the Soviet airspace
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Oil producers formed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). In fact, the first five members of OPEC were Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
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The Berlin Wall was built and the borders sealed between the East and the West of Germany.
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Syria pulled out of the UAR, and the union collapsed + Nasser’s image as an Arab leader had suffered.
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A direct + dangerous confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Pictures are shown.
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John Kennedy (US President) gives a speech to inform Americans that missiles have been discovered in Cuba.
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Khrushchev refuses to remove the missiles from Cuba. He had accused Kennedy of putting the world at risk of a nuclear war by ordering the quarantine.
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Kennedy agreed to the proposal to not invade Cuba. He started to remover U.S. missiles from Turkey.
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Khrushchev gives a speech and says that he has agreed to remove the missiles and that Cuba will not longer be invaded, and the crisis would come an end.
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Nasser had sent lots of Egyptian troops to fight in a civil war in Yemen.
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Khomeini was forced into exile.
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When 150,000 US troops were sent to Vietnam.
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Six-Day War of 1967 where Israel had defeated many of the Arab forces and occupied territory than ever before, later on in 1982, the Israelis returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
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Six-Day War took place after the Suez conflict, Nasser had viewed Israel as a mortal threat to Arabs.
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Nasser sent Egyptian troops into the Sinai Peninsula and closed off Israel’s outlet to the Red Sea, also known as the Gulf of Aqaba.
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The US Apollo 11 landed on the moon and so the famous astronaut Nel Armstrong became the first man to step or be on the moon.
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The US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and so the famous Austronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to step or be on the Moon.
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Nasser died from a heart attack.
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Egypt and Syria launched the fourth Arab-Israeli war.
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Iran’s economy was collapsing due to overspending and corruption.
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Shah confessed to his chief minister that they were broke.
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Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met for peace talks at Camp David.
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Sadat visited Jerusalem and was speaking before the Israeli parliament. He announced, “Today I tell you, and I declare it to the whole world, that we accept to live with you in permanent peace based on justice.”
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The shah left Iran for medical treatments and never returned. The US allowed the shah to enter the country for medical treatment. Millions of Iranians flooded the streets in joyous celebration.
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Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
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Many Soviet troops invaded the Afghanistan.
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Many Soviet troops invaded the Afghanistan.
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Iraqi leaders, with a lot of fear that the Iranian Revolution might spark a Shi’a uprising in their own country, had decided to invade Iran
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The Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was murdered when attending a military parade in Cairo.
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Israel invaded Lebanon, in the middle of a civil war, to strike at PLO bases there.
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A new phase of the conflict began with a popular uprising called the Intifada
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Beginning of the Intifada, Hamas also known as a Palestinian terrorist group was established.
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Iraq and Iran declared a ceasefire, nearly a million people had been killed or injured.
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The war went on for eight brutal years, but finally ended.
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Many Anti-Communist protests stood during/in the Tiananmen Square, located in Beijing, China was crushed by the government. Not only to mention, but the count of people death is unknown.
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The Berlin Wall was torn down.
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Iraq invaded the Persian Gulf nation of Kuwait and had quickly captured its capital also known as Kuwait City.
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Saddam Hussein was given a deadline to withdraw from Kuwait, but he had refused.
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A coalition of forces led by the US drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.
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Warsaw Pact ended.
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The end of the Cold War.
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Secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO in Oslo, Norway, produced the Oslo Accords.
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The famous Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin suddenly died when he was attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv, a man in the crowd pulled out a gun and shot him in the back.
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As much violence increased, this event became known as the Second Intifada.
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Sadat Hussein held in power than during the second invasion of Iraq, the United States led coalition forces to overthrow his dictatorship.
