SECOND WORLD WAR - NOWADAYS - SUPERPOWERS - COLD WAR (RESUME:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxC5a7Qrstk)
By RebecaRico
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Mijaíl Sergéyevich Gorbachov.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) for 1985-1989 and chief executive of the Soviet Union from 1989-1991. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and is currently the leader of the Union of Social Democrats party formed January 1 after the official dissolution of the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2007. -
The Revolution of 1934
The Revolution of 1934 or revolutionary general strike in Spain in 1934, it was a revolutionary strike movement during the biennium Radical-CEDA of the Second Republic. This movement was encouraged from broad sectors and important leaders of the PSOE and the UGT, and unevenly by the National Confederation of Labour, the Iberian Anarchist Federation and the Communist Party of Spain. The main outbreaks of rebellion occurred in Catalonia and Asturias. where the events took place more severe. -
START OF THE WW2
Germany invaded Poland, what lead the WW2*. It was the largest in the whole world.
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SECOND WORLD WAR
The WW2 started in 1939. Countries involved: Germany, Italy and Japan, and on the other front England, France and the Soviet Union. USA united to the second front(1941). Main cause: the ambition of Germany, Italy and Japan to dominate the whole world in an economic and political way. Adolf Hitler reached the power in Germany(1933), and violated the Treaty of Versailles(1919). He reactivated the army and joined to Austria. He invaded Czechoslovakia(1938). Meanwhile, Albany was conquered by Italy. -
Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
In 1940, the bridge became famous for his dramatic structural collapse induced by the wind, an event that was recorded on film. The replacement bridge was opened in 1950. -
Compulsory Military Service Act
The act was compulsory for erevy mexican man between 18 and 40 yeras old. -
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Holocausto.
It is identified with the name of Holocaust which technically also called Final Solution. The attempt to totally annihilate the Jewish population of Europe that culminated in the death of 6 million Jews. Although the criminal policies against the Jews had been developed in years before, the decision to face the final extermination was taken in late summer and early fall of 1941 and the program emerged in its fullness in the spring of 1942. -
"Potrero del Llano" & "Faja de Oro"
Potrero del Llano was sunk by a german submarine. The same happened with Faja de Oro. Mexico claimed this sunks to the German goernment, but it refused to pay. -
Manuel Ávila Camacho fights
As Germany refused to pay the boats, Mexico declared the war to Germany, Italy and Japan. -
The Tehran Conference.
The Conference took place between the leaders Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formed the side of the Allies. It is the best example of cooperation of the allies in World War II. It was the first conference of the Second World War between the Soviet Union,the U.S.,the UK and France,in which Stalin was present.The main discussion focused on the opening of a second front in Western Europe. It was rumored that the fascists were planning an attack against the President of USA -
The Battle of Normandy
The Battle of Normandy in 1944, code-named Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe was conducted by the Allies in the northwest of France, then occupied by Nazi Germany. The landing, code-named Operation Neptune as part of Operation Overlord, was executed by the Allied forces in World War II. The allied effort concentrated on land in Europe an army that, after freeing France, reach to the very heart of the Third Reich. Preparations for Operation Overlord began in Great Britain. -
Escuadrón 201
After declaring the war , Mexico cooperates with USA, sending a perfection aeronautic team to USA. In this date it was given the name of The Air Expeditionary Force, known as Escuadrón 201 -
End of the war (France)
France became one of the five members with veto power in the Security Council of the United Nations. France is transformed into one of the four occupying powers in Germany, takes to himself the administration of a sector of Berlin and take him back to the Saar. -
Fail in the Ardenas.
The german offensive was sunk in Bastonge. -
Auschwitz released.
The deaths had stopped in the gas chambers, and the proximity of The Red Guards made inevitable the evacuation of the camp. Most of the prisioners that were in this camp were evacuated to Germany, walking: the ones who could not resist were assassinated. -
The Red Guard in Varsovia.
The Red Guard had released the city of Varsovia. Everything was destroyed after the germans. The plan of evacuation was said in a special way, and the Bolsheviks didn't realised the evacuation. -
End of World War II.
The End of World War II meets both the closure of European Theatre of World War II as the German surrender, which took place between late April and early May 1945. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry Truman, President of the United States, against the Empire of Japan. They ended the World War II. After six months of intense bombardment of other 67 cities, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 followed by the detonation of the bomb Fat Man on Thursday, August 9 on Nagasaki. Until the date these bombings are the only nuclear attacks history. -
Germany and Japan desist
Germany surrended in may, 1945. Japan resisted, but not too long, due to the Hiroshima an Nagasaki atomic bombs. In this date Japan desisted, giving end to the most devating conflict. -
Banco del Ejército
While Miguel Alemán Valdés was in the power, the military mandataries ended. the industrial militar department was created, and in the same way, the Banco del Ejército was created too. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the popular name for the European Recovery Program (ERP), thought by the US for the reconstruction of European countries after the 2WW. This plan received the name of the Secretary of the US, George MARSHALL, and was designed by the State Department. -
Big bang theory formulated*
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Gandhi's assassination
On this date, when Gandhi was going to the church, he was assassinated in New Delhi. He was 78 years old. The assassin was Nathuran Godse, a radical Hindu related with ultra right groups in India. -
China becames communist
In 1949, CHina became the communist era. -
OTAN
The OTAN was created in Washington, and the countries were: US, Canada, Belguim, France, Dinmarc, Portugal, Iceland, luxemburg, Italy, Netherlands and Norway. Later, in 1952 Greece and Turquey were adeed, and in 1954 Germany joined them. The aim of the OTAN was to defend democratic liberties through the political and economic colaboration of all the countries that were in the treaty. At the beginning, it was said to last 20 years, but it was so important that it is still working nowadays. -
Korean war starts
The Korean war started in 1950 -
The Great Smog of 1952
The Great Smog of 1952 in London, was a period of environmental pollution, between the December 5 and December 9, 1952 that covered the city of London. The phenomenon was considered one of the worst environmental impacts until then, being caused by the uncontrolled growth of the burning of fossil fuels in industry and transport. It is believed that the phenomenon killed 12,000 Londoners and left another 100,000 sick. -
Stanlin's dead.
On March 5, 1953 saw the death of Stalin. His supporters saw suddenly toppled pillar of its ideology. His opponents fear experienced more joy to the unpredictable consequences that the event could have for a Cold War world. With Stalin's death ended an era. -
The marriage Rosenberg.
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (New York, September 28, 1915 - 19 June 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (New York, May 12, 1918 - 19 June 1953) was a marriage in the United States of America executed in the chair electric charges of espionage. It was the first execution of civilians for espionage in U.S. history. -
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Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War, also called the Second Indochina War, was an armed conflict faced between 1955 and 1975, the dictatorship of South Vietnam supported by the United States against North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, in the general context of the Cold War. After the end of the conflict, the Vietnam War was marked in history as the first military defeat of the United States. -
Varsovia Pact
The Varosvia Pact joined the countries that integrated the Soviet block. It was signed in the capital of Poland. The Pact integrated to this the Soviet Union, Albany, Bulgaria, Rumania and Checoslovaquia meanwhile in 1956 Oriental Germany joined to the Pact. The aim was to cooperate between them in military facts in the case that armed aggressions were made to the participant countries.it had as mission of the consultation of security and politic facts between the countries participating. -
France gets back The Saar.
After another plebiscite, France returns Saar to West Germany. -
Fith Republic at France
Fifth Republic. The 1958 Constitution created a presidential regime. Charles de Gaulle returns to the forefront of French politics. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution is the main result of the Cuban revolutionary left movement that toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and the coming to power of the Rebel Army leader Fidel Castro. As the revolutionaries remain in power ever since the revolution is considered as the period of time between the uprising against Batista and today. -
Particle Acelerator.
The biggest acelerator of the whole world was inagurated in that day, in Geneve. -
First travel to the space.
The first deputy of the USSR Air Force, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, made the first manned space flight in history. The man entered a new medium completely unknown, to face challenges and tasks that have never been solved in science and technology. And most importantly, no one knew for sure if the man could endure a flight into space. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding in the presidential car in Dealey Plaza. It was the fourth U.S. president. UU. assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield and William McKinley) and eighth who died in the exercise of their functions. -
French May
French May: A vast student movement created a political crisis in France. Charles de Gaulle agree to submit the approval of its government to a referendum. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 space mission was the United States sent into space on July 16, 1969, the first manned mission to reach the surface of the moon. -
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo program in the United States and the third with the intention of landing on the moon.The spacecraft was launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13 hours. The landing was aborted due to the explosion of an oxygen tank two days after liftoff, crippling the service module on which depended the command module. -
Watergate.
The Watergate scandal (or Watergate) was a political scandal in the United States occurred in 1972 during the presidency of Richard Nixon, culminating in bringing charges some very close advisors to the President, and the resignation of this, the August 8, 1974. -
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American-based multinational company, founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. -
Los Rodeos Airport
The March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747s collided at Los Rodeos Airport (Tenerife Norte today), north of the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people. Is the crash with the highest number of fatalities in the history of aviation. -
The accident at Three Mile Island.
The accident at Three Mile Island was a nuclear accident that suffered nuclear plant of the same name on March 28, 1979. That day the TMI-2 reactor suffered a partial meltdown of the reactor core. -
End of the Cold war.
Last period of the bipolar conflict. -
The Challenger
The Challenger space shuttle accident occurred on Tuesday January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida (USA) at 11:38 ET (16:38 UTC). It has been rated as the worst accident in the history of aeronautics. -
Chernobil disaster.
It was a nuclear accident happened in Chernobyl NPP (Ukraine). Considered together with the Fukushima I nuclear accident in Japan, 2011, as the most serious in the International Nuclear Event Scale (major accident, level 7). It is considered one of the largest environmental disasters in history. -
Protest in Tian'anmen Square.
The riots consisted of a series of demonstrations led by students in the PRC. The protest is named after the place where the People's Liberation Army suppressed the mobilization: Tian'anmen Square in Beijing. Since intellectuals who believed the Communist Party government was too repressive and corrupt city workers who believed that economic reforms in China had gone too far and that inflation and unemployment were threatening their livelihoods complained. The death of Hu Yaobang began the prot. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Eastern block dominated by the Soviets officially claimed that the wall was built to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to avoid the popular wish of building a socialist state in East Germany. However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration that marked Germany and the Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II. In this date, this Wall falled. -
War of the Gulf (France)
France supported the U.S. in the first Gulf War. -
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Ther Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), or simply the Gulf War, was an invasion waged by a coalition force authorized by the UN, comprised of 34 countries and led by the United States against the Republic of Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Coup Attempt
On Tuesday, February 4, 1992, a group of soldiers executed a coup attempt in Venezuela against President Carlos Andres Perez constitutional. The coup attempt failed to achieve its objectives and the rebels surrendered. Among the officers who commanded this maneuver elevations were mainly four army colonels: Hugo Chavez, Francisco Arias Cárdenas, Yoel Acosta Chirinos and Jesus Urdaneta.