The Impact of the Cold War around the World
On December 15, 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations, set to begin on January 1, 1979, between the U.S. and China. The U.S. recognized the communist People’s Republic of China as the government for
Read moreOn August 23, 1958, Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong, began firing artillery shells at the Quemoy and Matsu Islands, the territory of the Chinese nationalists, who were based in Taiwan and led by Chiang-Kai Shek. Shortly following this attack,
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Early on the morning of June 5, 1967, the Israeli Air Force launched a preemptive strike against Egypt’s grounded air force and infantry stationed in the Sinai Peninsula, seized the Gaza strip, and began to advance west towards the Suez
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On October 29, 1956, Israel, France, and the UK invaded Egypt in an attempt to regain control of the Suez Canal in the wake of Egypt’s nationalization of it. By November 7, Israel’s position was strengthened; it gained the freedom
Read moreThe cover photograph of a New York Times article, titled “Atlantic Allies at London Parlay Plan to Review Ties with Soviet,” published on January 1, 1980 by Pranay Gupte, of the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Peter Carrington, at the London
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On November 4th, 1979, a group of Iranian university students and Islamist radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 65 Americans hostage. The students were motivated by U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s decision to permit the entry of Reza Pahlavi,
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On January 23, 1968, North Korean naval ships attacked and captured the United States spy ship, the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), while it was conducting an intelligence gathering mission in the sea of Japan off of Wonsan, North Korea. The event
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The Battle of Inchon lasted from September 15th to September 19th in 1950. It was a large-scale military operation conducted by the United Nations (UN) forces led by the United States against the North Korean’s Korean People’s Army (KPA). The
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Genocide, humanitarian crisis, and a Cold War epicenter: the Bangladesh Liberation War was one of the most transformative conflicts of the 20th century. After an election dispute, brutal civil war waged throughout 1971 between East and West Pakistan, and following
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On Sept. 11, 1973, a military-led coup by General Augusto Pinochet seized the Chilean government and established what would be a nearly decade-long junta dictatorship. The siege succeeded a well-established democracy in Chile led by then-President Salvador Allende, a democratically-elected
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