Post 1914 Issues - The People

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  1. 3. de Mayo, In 1976, the Argentine military overthrew the government of Isabel Perón, the widow of populist president Juan Perón, It was part of a larger series of political coups called Operation Condor, a campaign sponsored and supported by the United States.
  2. 7. born, May 3, 1898, died, December 8, 1978 Former Prime Minister of Israel, During World War II Golda Meir (Hebraized from Goldie Myerson) was a forceful spokesman for the Zionist cause, In 1948 she signed Israel's independence declaration and was appointed minister to Moscow. She was elected to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in 1949 and served in that body until 1974.
  3. 9. born December 18, 1878,died March 5, 1953,leader of soviet union and transformed soviet union from backwards agriculture to one of leading nations.
  4. 10. born December 26, 1893, died September 9, 1976,former President of the People's Republic of China and led communist forces in China and ruled the nation's communist government from its establishment in 1949.
  5. 12. born August 13, 1926, died November 25, 2016, Cuba's proximity to the United States, Castro and his regime became an important Cold War ally for the Soviets, the Soviet Union provided with military, economic, and political assistance to Cuba.
  6. 13. late 1970's, After the Suez-crisis, the Palestinian national struggle, that was an important symbol and unifying force among the Arabs, became the nucleus of the Cold War politics in the Middle East, The Arab and Israeli leaders exploited the situation to their own advantage, establishing a link between the extra-regional and the regional level of conflict, Thus, during the Cold War years, peace-making efforts in the Middle East became hostage to Cold War considerations (Avineri 1993), The rationale for this deadlock disappeared with the Cold War, and the division of the Middle East in Eastern and Western spheres of influence vanished.
  7. 16. Born May 29, 1917, Brookline, died November 22, 1963 due to assassination, impact; established peace corps and stopped ww3 from being created.
  8. 17. born October 2, 1869, died January 30, 1948,His non-violent resistance helped end British rule in India and has influenced modern civil disobedience movements across the globe, Widely referred to as Mahatma, meaning great soul or saint in Sanskrit, Gandhi helped India reach independence through a philosophy of non-violent non-cooperation.
  9. 18. After concluding the meeting, PLO was founded on 2 June 1964. Its stated goal was the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle,Soviet secret services have been described by GRU defectors Viktor Suvorov and Stanislav Lunev as "the primary instructors of terrorists worldwide,The terrorism was seen by Soviet leadership as the only way to reduce the imbalance between USSR military and economical power against the Western world. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, KGB General Aleksandr Sakharovsky once said: "In today’s world, when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become our main weapon, also claimed that "airplane hijacking is my own invention" and that in 1969 alone, 82 planes were hijacked worldwide by the KGB-financed PLO.
  10. 19. born May 8, 1884, died December 26, 1972, Wrote/created the Truman Doctrine and was informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world, also It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from détente (a relaxation of tension) .
  11. 20. ,born March 10, 1957, died May 2, 2011 In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda,He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until U,S, pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996,After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks.
  12. 21. born August 27, 1908, Died: January 22, 1973,pursued conciliatory policies with the Soviet Union and escalated the U.S. presence in Vietnam in order to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia during the Cold War.
  13. 23. born September 29, 1943, presided over Poland's successful transition from Communism into a free-market liberal democracy, but his active role in Polish politics diminished after he narrowly lost the 1995 Polish presidential election. In 1995, he established the Lech Wałęsa Institute.
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  1. 1. born July 18, 1918, died, December 5, 2013, Former President of South Africa, inspired generations to overcome injustice around the world, the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalized racism and fostering racial reconciliation.
  2. 2. in Lebanon in 2005 is Syria removed all of its military troops from Lebanon; Hezbollah started as a guerrilla group that deeply rooted its roots into the Lebanon country gradually transforming themselves into a major political and military force
  3. 4. from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978, He was the country's first indigenous head of government and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death.
  4. 5. born, 26, 1910, death, September 5, 1997, Saint, She founded the order, The Missionaries of Charity, to look after abandoned babies and to help the poorest of the poor, once saying that they "lived like animals but die like angels". In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize and after her death was canonized as Saint Teresa
  5. 6. born March 2, 1931, Former Soviet Union politician curtailed human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, and tolerating both the fall of Marxist–Leninist administrations in eastern and central Europe and the reunification of Germany.
  6. 8. former prime minister of the UK, while serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office, A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
  7. 11. born, November 19, 1917, died, October 31,former prime minister of India, went to war with Pakistan in support of the independence movement and war of independence in East Pakistan, which resulted in an Indian victory and the creation of Bangladesh, as well as increasing India's influence to the point where it became the sole regional power of South Asia.
  8. 14. born February 6, 1911, died June 5, 2004, 40th president, The Reagan Administration implemented a new policy towards the Soviet Union through NSDD-32 (National Security Decisions Directive) to confront the USSR on three fronts: to decrease Soviet access to high technology and diminish their resources, including depressing the value of Soviet commodities on the world market.
  9. 15. Square, The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China, They were halted in a bloody crackdown, known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, by the Chinese government on June 4 and 5, 1989.
  10. 22. The provisions of the deal include the withdrawal of all American and NATO troops from Afghanistan, a Taliban pledge to prevent al-Qaeda from operating in areas under Taliban control, and talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.