Kennedy nyerere

Tanganyika in Context with the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Isabela Vitta

  • League of Nations gives Britain a mandate over Tanganyika

    League of Nations gives Britain a mandate over Tanganyika - today's mainland Tanzania.

  • Tanganyika African Association founded

  • United Nations converts British mandate over Tanganyika into a trusteeship

  • Julius Nyerere and Oscar Kambona transform the Tanganyika African Association into the Tanganyika African National Union

  • Fidel Castro proclaims himself new leader of Cuba

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    Kennedy in Office as US President

  • Tanganyika becomes independent with Julius Nyerere as prime minister

  • Period: to

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • President Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba

  • Tanganyika becomes a republic with Nyerere as president

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