Saturday, December 5, 2009

What are some events that happened in...? (late 30s to 1992)?

What are some major events that happened in these years? Thanks.



the late 30s'



40's (Besides WW2)



50's



60's



70's



80's



and 1990-1992?



Thanks again.



What are some events that happened in...? (late 30s to 1992)?concert tickets



1939 -Invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact followed, which carved up Poland between them.



1946 - Great Britain relinquished power over the "Jewel in the Crown", India, to the peacful movement of resistance led by Mahatma Ghandi, markind the beginning of the era of "decolonisation"



1950-52 - The Korean War marked the first time the US and other countries intervened in a country with a UN mandate, it proved the UN could worked, unlike the earlier League of Nations, and gave the US the impression that armed intervention could "roll back" the borders of international Communism.



1964 - The Gulf of Tonkin incident led to the stepping up of US forces in Vietnam, which escalated into full-blown war by 1968. This was important because the US tried to use armed intervention to push back communism again, but would this time fail due to apathy at home and determination of the Vietnamese fighters.



1974 - Richard Nixon leaves the White House after the Watergate scandal, the only time a sitting US president had resigned over a scandal.



1986 - The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurs, forever denting public faith in the "fuel of the future" nuclear power, and leading to an increase in so-called "green activism"



1990-1991 - The First Gulf War occurs, with a coaliton of nations led by the US under a UN mandate counter an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.



What are some events that happened in...? (late 30s to 1992)?theater seating opera theater



You want a synopsis of historical events for a 60 year span? Go to the library and do your own assignments.

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