Europe 1982: Islamic Resurgence
25 April 1982
25 Apr 1982
Cold War
-27–68 Julio-Claudian Dynasty
68–96 Flavian Dynasty
96–192 Nerva–Antonine Dynasty
192–235 Severan Dynasty
235–268 Crisis of the Third Century: Turmoil
268–284 Crisis of the Third Century: Restoration
284–311 Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
311–363 Constantinian Dynasty
363–383 Valentinianic Dynasty
383–408 Theodosian Dynasty: Divided Empire
408–425 Theodosian Dynasty: The West Besieged
425–441 Theodosian Dynasty: Fall of Africa
441–455 Theodosian Dynasty: Hunnic Wars
455–461 Last Hope of the Western Empire
461–476 Fall of the Western Empire
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1803–1814 Napoleonic Wars
1814–1815 Vienna and Waterloo
1815–1848 Congress Europe
1848–1850 Springtime of Peoples
1850–1859 Crimean War
1859–1862 Italian Unification
1862–1871 German Unification
1871–1914 Imperial Europe
1914–1918 Great War
1918–1922 Armistice Europe
1922–1939 Rise of Fascism
1939–1942 World War II: Blitzkrieg
1942–1945 World War II: Fall of the Third Reich
1945–1990 Cold War
1990–2010 Post-Cold War Europe
2010–pres Crisis of Europe
Islamic Resurgence
19 Apr 1946 The Iron Curtain Descends
10 Feb 1947 Paris Peace Treaties
1 Aug 1948 Berlin Airlift
7 Oct 1949 NATO and the Two Germanys
21 Sep 1955 Warsaw Pact
7 Nov 1956 Suez Crisis
22 Feb 1958 Arab Nationalism
26 Jun 1963 Berlin Wall
26 May 1972 Detente
15 Jun 1977 Cold War Rivalry in the Middle East
25 Apr 1982 Islamic Resurgence
10 Nov 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
To defuse tensions in the Middle East, the US encouraged a permanent peace settlement between Egypt and Israel. However, while Egypt and the Arab nationalists were largely coming to terms with the West, a fundamentalist Islam was on the rise that opposed both Cold War alliances. In 1979, an Islamist revolution in Iran overthrew the pro-Western Shah. Later that year, Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan to support its Communist government against a similar uprising.
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