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Yom Kippur War
It was a war in which Egypt and Syria launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur.Egyptian and Syrian forces lattacked against Israel hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war.A cease-fire went into effect on October 25, 1973. -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Tready Organization was created after the North Altantic Tready .Its member states agree to mutual defense
when one member was attacked.It has 28 member states across North America and Europe .The military structure was built up under the direction of two US supreme commanders. -
Laotian Civil War
Itvwas conflicts between the Communist Pathet Lao North (include Vietnamese of Lao ancestry) and the Royal Lao Government. The total people dead 20,000-250,000.They got many outside help for a proxy war from global cold war powerful countries by their political rights. -
Formation of SEATO
It was signed in Manila by representatives of Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. SEATO-funded cultural and educational programs left long-standing effects in Southeast AsiaIt was a regional defence organization. It lasted for 23 years.It came to its end when many members lost interest and withdrew. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact commonly refered to the Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The member countries included Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,EastCermany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,Soviet Union, and Albania.Warsaw Pact has served as one of the Soviet Union's primary mechanisms for keeping its East European allies under its political and military control. -
Suez Canal Crisis
The crisis started when Egypt nationalized the canal was owned by Bristish.Isreal, Britain and Framce came to a secret agreement awaring the economic importance of the Suez Canal and demanding the Egypt to withdraw. from the canal .Ireal invaded Egypt and Britain and France took action after they could not meet agreement wiht Egypt.UN,US and USSR condemn the Bristish and Franch Military Action in November 1956. When British troops finally left Egypt, it ended seventy four years of occupation. -
Tibetan uprising
The Tibetan uprising or Tibetan Rebellion was the revolution of the Tibetan toward the Chinese Communist Part.Early on March 21, the Chinese began shelling Norbulinka, killing tens of thousands of men, women and children still camped outside.their inhabitants.The guerrilla warfare pread out around Tibet .US supported Tibetan by giving training and arms for the guerrillas in Tibet . -
Nicaraguan Civil War
Many different factors led to the Civil War in El Salvador such as the inequality of social classes, repressive military rule, and poverty.El Salvador had been under military control since 1931 and it was in charge for a long time. They did not prove t o be successful because the economic sphere did not improve. The elections where always fraudulent and the military knew that they were always going to be the victorious. The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between US military and FMLN. Unknow -
Angola Civil War
Angola Civil War broke out between two former rival liberation groups. The war lasted for 27 years and more than 500 thousands people The Angolan Civil War became one of the bloodiest, longestare killed and intense war because of foreign intervention. It was also a proxy war of the cold war between between US and USSR . -
Salvadoran Civil War
Many different factors led to the Civil War in El Salvador such as the inequality of social classes, repressive military rule, and poverty.El Salvador had been under military control since 1931 and it was in charge for a long time. They did not prove t o be successful because the economic sphere did not improve. The elections where always fraudulent and the military knew that they were always going to be the victorious. The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between US military and FMLN. -
Iran hostage crisis
This events wasvfollowed the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran by Iranian students on Nov. 4, 1979.In Iran, the hostage taking was widely seen as a blow against the United States, and its influence in Iran, its perceived attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution, and its longstanding support of the Shah of Iran, recently overthrown by the revolution. -
Afghan-soviet war
The Afghan-Soviet war was a war fought between the forces of the Soviet union, and Islamic tribes of Afghanistan who were against the Communist government set up by the Soviets..In that war, 15.000 were killed and 35,000 were wounded lasted for 9 years.About one million Afghans were killed.The anti-Communist Afghan forces had support from many countries, mainly the U.S and Pakistan. -
Iran-Iraq War
The war started when Iraq invaded Iran by air and land forces in 1980. The two countries had had border disputes for along time. Iraq hoped that they would win the war as there was a revolution broke out in Iran but Irap repelled in 1982 . The war ended by the help of UN in 1988 . -
The US invasion of Grenada
The invasion was to end the revolutionary government in Grenada and resulted a formation of a constitutional government. US got support form its public and local groups in Grenada.it was criticized by the United Kingdom, Canada and the UN due to charges of American imperialism.