Category: Afghanistan

Southern Asia 1929

Ikhwan Revolt

The Saudi conquests in Arabia had...

Southern Asia 1930

Salt March

In late 1929 the Indian National...

Southern Asia 1931

Sino-Tibetan War

By the early 1930s, Chiang Kaishek's...

Eastern Mediterranean 1980

Battle of Zahlé

By the late 1970s relations between...

Europe 1982

Islamic Resurgence

To defuse tensions in the Middle...

North America 1983

Central American Crisis

In 1979, left-wing Sandinista forces...

Northern Eurasia 1985

Soviet War in Afghanistan

In 1979, the Soviet Union intervened...

Eastern Mediterranean 1988

First Intifada

In late 1987 unrest broke out in the...

Europe 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

By the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc had...

North America 1989

End of the Cold War

The US funded the Nicaraguan Contras...

Northern Eurasia 1989

Glasnost

By the late 1980s, the Soviet Union...

Northern Eurasia 1993

Russian Constitutional Crisis

With the fall of the Soviet Union,...