The History Book

299 See also: The formation of the Royal African Company 176–79 ■ The Siege of Lucknow 242 ■ Nkrumah wins Ghanaian independence ...

300 parliament where power was shared between Indians and British officials. This did not satisfy Indian nationalists, and the B ...

301 Mau Mau suspects captured in Nairobi’s Great Rift Valley, Kenya, in 1952 are led away, with their hands on their heads, to b ...

302 THE NAME OF OUR STATE SHALL BE ISRAEL THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL (1948) A s the sun rose on May 14, 1948, the British flag ...

303 The flag of Israel was adopted in 1948, a few months after the birth of the state. It was originally designed in 1891 for us ...

304 THE LONG MARCH IS A MANIFESTO A PROPAGANDA FORCE A SEEDING-MACHINE THE LONG MARCH (1934–1935) I n the autumn of 1933, the Ch ...

305 Mao Zedong rides his white horse alongside Communist Party members during the Long March of 1934–35. His role in the march u ...

306 GHANA YOUR BELOVED COUNTRY IS FREE FOREVER NKRUMAH WINS GHANAIAN INDEPENDENCE (1957) I n February 1948, at a time when the G ...

307 Kwame Nkrumah, Kojo Botsio, Krobo Edusei, and other Ghanaian politicians celebrate the independence of their country, which ...

308 WE’RE EYEBALL TO EYEBALL AND I THINK THE OTHER FELLOW JUST BLINKED THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (1962) F or 13 days, from Octobe ...

309 Cuban president Fidel Castro and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev hold up their joined hands in a show of unity on an officia ...

310 See also: The Berlin Airlift 296–97 ■ The Cuban Missile Crisis 308–09 ■ The fall of the Berlin Wall 322–23 ■ The launch of t ...

311 See also: The formation of Royal African Company 176–79 ■ The Slave Trade Abolition Act 226–27 ■ The Gettysburg Address 244– ...

312 I AM NOT GOING TO LOSE VIETNAM THE GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT ( 1964 ) I n the aftermath of World War II, the states of Southea ...

313 The US Navy destroyer Maddox was sailing off the coast of North Vietnam when it came under attack. This incident was the spa ...

314 A REVOLUTION IS NOT A BED OF ROSES THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION (1961) O n April 15, 1961, a force of Cuban exiles began an inva ...

315 The Bay of Pigs invasion was a disaster for the United States, and many anti-Castro forces were captured during the conflict ...

316 SCATTER THE OLD WORLD BUILD THE NEW THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION ( 1966 ) T he Cultural Revolution was one of the darkest periods ...

317 In this propaganda poster dating from around the time of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards are shown with a copy of Ma ...

318 WE SHALL DEFEND IT WITH OUR BLOOD AND STRENGTH AND WE SHALL MEET AGGRESSION WITH AGGRESSION AND EVIL WITH EVIL THE SUEZ CRIS ...