Chapter 27 Review: Important Events
1945 | Cold war begins |
1947 | India and Pakistan win independence from Britain |
1948 | State of Israel is established |
1949 | Mao Zedong leads Communist revolution in China; Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex |
1950 | Korean War begins |
1953 | Stalin dies; Korean War ends |
1954 | Brown v. Board of Education prohibits segregated schools in the United States; Vietnamese forces defeat French at Dien Bien Phu |
1956 | General Abdel Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal; uprising in Hungary against USSR |
1957 | Boris Pasternak publishes Doctor Zhivago; USSR launches Sputnik; Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market) |
1958 | Fifth Republic begins in France |
1962 | United States and USSR face off in the Cuban missile crisis |
Consider three events: India and Pakistan win independence from Britain (1947), Simone de Beauvoir publishes The Second Sex (1949), and Brown v. Board of Education prohibits segregated schools in the United States (1954). How did colonized peoples, women, and African Americans use the experience of war to seek liberation and civil rights?