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- Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
1: ...the Soviet deployment of [[nuclear weapon|nuclear missiles]] in [[Cuba]]. The crisis began on [[October 14]...
4: ===American missile sites in Turkey===
5: ... office in 1961, Kennedy ordered that the Jupiter missiles be removed.
7: ...USSR and would provide little warning of a launch from Cuba.
9: ...d claims from Soviet diplomats that there were no missiles in Cuba, nor any plans to place any, and that th...
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- Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
10: ...ng other things, [[healthcare]] and [[education]] freely available were expanded to cover all Cubans.A...
12: ...ssis in October (1962), when Medium Range Nuclear Missiles were installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and a...
14: ... to the U.S., mostly aboard vessels that departed from the U.S. Eventually the U.S. stopped the flow ...
16: ...eople, our country could not have survived the confrontation with imperialism".
18: ...espite being denied access to [[development aid]] from the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]] because Cuba is ... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - United Kingdom (37269 bytes)
10: ...t mon droit]] (Royal motto)<br>([[French language|French]]: God and my right)''<sup>2</sup></small> |
56: ...r, although there is also a nominal frontier with France in the middle of the [[Channel Tunnel]]. The ...
62: ...d). This political usage of "Great Britain" dates from the personal union of the Crowns of Scotland an...
64: The [[British Isles]] is a term frequently used to refer to the [[archipelago]] whic...
71: ...nce]] of [[Ulster]], immediately opted out of the Free State and to remain in the UK. The nomenclature... - Sickle (1231 bytes)
16: ...the [[RT-2PM Topol]] [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]. - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...[[Hispanic]] ancestry, many of whom are descended from [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[colonist]]s. It al...
46: ...ld. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vá³±uez de Coronado]] led a full-scale exp...
50: ..."The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of [[New Spain]] to his remote colony....
58: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of [[France]] sold the vast [[Louisiana Purchase]], which...
60: Small trapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa ... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - History of the United States (21226 bytes)
12: ...an American spirit and culture which was distinct from that of its European founders.
17: ...his period the United States won its independence from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] during the [[A...
22: ...sippi River waterway, removed the French presence from the western border of the United States, and pr...
24: ...The United States, dependent on European revenues from the export of agricultural goods, tried to expo...
26: ...r]], Britain sought to impose a stranglehold over French overseas trade ties. Thus, in retaliation aga... - List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
11: ** [[Timeline of rocket and missile technology]]
92: * [[Timeline of rocket and missile technology]]
132: * France
133: ** [[Timeline of the French Revolution]]
311: ....mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html List of timelines from across the web of things that never were] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon...
56: Space exploration has come under criticism from people. One of the most common charges is that ... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...rded history aspects of this desire have surfaced from time to time. The most well known is the legen...
15: ...d and it was constructed in the late 20th century from materials that would have been available to da ...
17: ...est. Yet there are sufficient proofs and examples from nature that such flights can take place without...
19: ...n [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre de Rozier]] and [[Francois d'Arlandes]] went 5 miles (8 km) in a [[hot...
21: ...[1852]]. Henri Giffard flew 15 miles (24 km) in [[France]], with a steam engine mounted on a dirigible... - Cold War (18329 bytes)
2: ...-intensity military operations and full-scale war from [[1947]] until the collapse of the Soviet Union...
7: ...usually considered to have occurred approximately from the end of the alliance between the U.S. and th...
9: ...''see'' [[SALT I]], [[SALT II]], [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]]). U.S.-Soviet relations would deteriorat...
12: ...ertain that a global nuclear war would not result from smaller regional wars, which heightened the lev...
14: ...ty controlled by [[West Germany]] and the Allies) from [[East Berlin]] and the territory of [[East Ger... - Vietnam War (102682 bytes)
15: ... Vietnam]]<br><br>[[Viet Cong|National Liberation Front<br>(Viet Cong)]]<br><br />[[Image:Viet cong fl...
33: The '''Vietnam War''' was fought from [[1957]] to [[1975]] between Vietnamese nationa...
37: ...y experts consider the Vietnam War to just be one frontline in the larger [[Cold War]].
41: ...for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]], a South Vietnamese opposition movement with...
43: ...ort to maintain control of her former colony of [[French Indochina]]. - Timeline of United States history (1950-1969) (7885 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1950]] to [[1969]]'''.
23: *[[1954]] - Fall of [[Dien Bien Phu]]; French lose control of [[Vietnam]]
48: *[[1960]] - [[National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam]] formed
60: *[[1962]] - [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]
89: *[[1968]] - The [[National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam]] launches the [... - Timeline of United States history (1970-1989) (5473 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1970]] to [[1989]]'''.
7: *[[1972]] - [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]] with [[USSR]]
44: ...oma Prieta earthquake]] kills 63 in greater [[San Francisco Bay Area]] - Timeline of United States history (1990-present) (6005 bytes)
1: ...meline of United States history]] concerns events from '''[[1990]] to present.'''
16: *[[1994]] - [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] goes into effect
31: ... Senate|Senate]] after [[James Jeffords]] defects from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
33: ...tan|Invasion of Afghanistan]] Operation "Enduring Freedom"
35: *[[2002]] - U.S. withdraws from [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]]. - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ...ited States]] and [[Britain]] would open a second front on the European continent; but the Allied inva...
11: ...er [[Winston Churchill]] (left), U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First S...
13: ...came to be called the [[Oder-Neisse Line]]. Aside from a few minor adjustments, this would be the "iro...
15: ...autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for the allegiance of t...
17: ...emerge intact—and even greatly strengthened from an economic perspective—was the United St... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...facilitated demographic shifts to the "frontiers" from the more industrialized states in the Northeast...
8: ...economic base as municipalities lost the revenues from the enterprises that had departed. In the natio...
14: ...ss African Americans have grown more marginalized from the mainstream of U.S. society than their count...
18: ...tered confidence in the presidency. International frustrations, including the fall of [[South Vietnam]...
22: ...d by [[Moscow]], were spreading rapidly across [[Africa]], [[Southeast Asia]], and [[Latin America]]. ...
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