Category: Foreign Affairs
The Bloody End of the Vietnam War
On this day in 1973, the last remaining American combat troops pulled out of Vietnam, ending direct US military involvement in the war following the…
From Stalin to Khrushchev
On this day in 1958, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev replaces Nicolay Bulganin as Soviet premier, making him the first leader since Joseph Stalin to…
From WW 2 and the Camp David Accords to Israel under Netanyahu
On the day in 1979, The Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty (معاهدة السلام المصرية الإسرائيلية; Mu`āhadat as-Salām al-Misrīyah al-‘Isrā’īlīyah; הסכם השלום בין ישראל למצרים; Heskem HaShalom Bein…
From Democracy to Communism in Czechoslovakia
On this day in 1948, the nascent communist-controlled government of Czechoslovakia reports that Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk has committed suicide. The story of the non-communist…
The Tokyo Firebombing
On this day in 1945, the Army Air Corps launches Operation Meetinghouse, generally referred to as the Tokyo Firebombing. The night of March 9-10, 334…
And Spain Loses Florida
On this day in 1819, Spanish minister Don Luis de Onis and US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, under the Monroe administration, sign the…
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