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Imperialism
Is an action that involves a country(empire or kingdom) extending its power by the acquision of territories. It may also include the explotation of these territories, an action that is linked to colonisation. -
Berlin conference
The Berlin conference, was a conference that marked the climax of the European colonies in Africa. It was a conference between Great Britain, France, and Germany between others.
Consquences: distribution of Africa between Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Grat Britain, Italy and Portugal. -
Leader of South Africa
When they reach the Independence its leader was Kwame Nkrumah. -
Steel Curtain
This term comes from the german expression Eiserner Vorhang. This refers to the border ideological, political and in some cases physical between the Eastern and Western Europe after the WW2.
This term in Germany was used by Joseph Goebbles, the las chancellor of Germany. And the English term used by Winston Churchill.
It is like a barrier thar Goebbles wanted to put separating its territories from other countris, with a steel barrier. -
Division of Germany (1956)
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Cold war (1947 to 1991)
This was a conflict over ideological differences carried on by methods, short of sustained overt millitary action and usually without breaking off diplomatic relations: the ideological conflicts was between the US and the USSR during the second half of the 20th century. -
Phases of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- the war started in 1947, when the UN divided Palestine into an Arab-Palestinian state and a Jewish state.
- The state of Israel was proclaimed in1948
- Israel and Arab countries have been in constant conflict since 1948 (six day war 1967 - Yom Kippv war 1973)
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Leader of India (1947)
When India reach the independence, its leader was Lord Mounbatten. -
Leader of Pakistan (1947)
When the reach ded Independence its leader was Muhammad Ali Jinnah. -
Bipolar World
was used as a shorthand description of the world during the cold war. By 1950 Europe and some parts of Asia were divided into two blocks, one supporting the western liberal deocratic capitalist system, th other pursuing the creation of a pan (communist world) -
War of Korea (1950-1953)
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Decolonization (1950´s-1960´s)
Is the independence of the colonies whch were put of a colonial empire. during the 1950´s and 1960´s , Colonies of Africa and some archipielagos of Oceania along whith Guyana and Surinam in south America. -
War of vietnam (1955-1975)
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crisis of the missiles in cuba 1962
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The end of the communist block of Eastern Europe (1989) and the Soviet Union (1991).
- Germany unificated as the German Democracy in 1990
- In the communist bloc, the Soviet Union tried to make reforms to change (into difficult transition) to a democracy and a capitalist economy.
- After the internal problems of the USSR (1991), central and Eastern countries took advantage and initiates a reform process (1993)
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Iraq war
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Balkan War
From 31 March 1991 to 12 November 2001 -
Bandung Conference
Is a meeting of Asian and African States most of chich were newly independent, which took place on April 1955 in Indonesia. 29 countries participate here. This was coordinated by Russia.The conference's stated aims were to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any nation. The conference was an important step toward the Non-Aligned Movement -
wars of Afghanistan
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terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
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War of Syria
from 2011 to nowadays
