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The Post-War World
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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin airlift begins with 32 flights by American C-47 aircraft's in West Germany to the Tempelhof airport in Berlin. Eighty tons of provisions are delivered that first day. The American's attempt to supply Berlin's 2.5 million people is dubbed "Operation Vittles," while the British effort becomes known as "Operation Plainfare." -
Formation of NATO
The U.S. and Western European governments sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. This treaty establishes the NATO organization and commits its members to mutual defense in the event of a Soviet attack. -
Arab-Israeli Conflict 1956
The Suez Crisis, also named the Tripartite Aggression was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian president Nasser from power. -
Launch of Sputnik
The launch of Sputnik, the first arificial satellite, brought the dawn of the space age, and increased conflict between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The people of the United States had begun to feel as if they were unsurpassable in ecer aspect of life. However, the launch of Sputnik alarmed society and created a wide spread panic in suspecting that their country was vulnerable and could be outshown. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 November 1989 marks the infamous fall of the Berlin Wall. On midnight of that day, East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened as a result of days of mass protest. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
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Arab Israeli Conflict 1967
The Six-Day War was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt Jordan, and Syria. Following the mobilisation of Egyptian forces along the Israeli border in the Sinai Peninsula, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields on June 5 and so began the Six-Day War. -
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Arab-Israeli Conflict 1973
The Yom Kippur War was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. With the exception of isolated attacks on Israeli territory on 6 and 9 October, the military combat actions during the war took place on Arab territory. Egypt's stated goal for the war was the destruction of the State of Israel. -
Assassination of Egyptian President Sadat
The assassination of Anwar Sadat occurred on 6 October 1981. Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr (1973), during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War -
Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Begin
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on Saturday, November 4, 1995 at 9:30 AM , at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assassin, an Israeli ultranationalist terrorist named Yigal Amir, suriously opposed Rabin's peace plan and particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.
