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indian independance
india recieves independece from britian, through nonvoilent protests lead by gandi -
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berlin airlift
after soviets cut off traffic and water to west berlin.american and british officials have supplies flied into west berlin -
creation of israel
british leave Israel and decrale it a jewish homeland and an official jewish statealthough most of population is not jewish. -
formation of NATO
defensive alliance between 12 icluding the U.S. and canada. created because of fears of soviet aggression. -
formation of the Warsaw Pact
created after West-Germany joined NATO. few countries remained non-aligned. -
arab-israeli conficts
confict between arabs and israelis over boarders and territories using tactics similar to terrorism -
launch of Sputnik
soviet union lauched first unmanned satellite. used tech for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). -
cuban missile crisis
U.S. spy plane finds soviets building missile sites in cuba 90 miles from florida. U.S. see it as a threat and blockades cuba to stop soviets from installing more missiles. Soviets agree to remove missiles from cuba and US doent invade cuba and removes missiles from turkey. -
assassination of egyptian president sadat
egytian president was assassinated by a muslim extremist that dis agreed with his views and polocies. -
assassination of israeli prime minister begin
assassinated by own people because they disagreed with his views and polocies
