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Map color meaning of the color Bold blue NATO Medium blue Other allies of the U.S. Bold red Warsaw Pact Medium red Socialist countries aligned with the U.S.S.R. Light red Other allies of the U.S.S.R. Yellow Maoist nations Light blue Non-aligned nations Blue crossmarks Anti-communist guerrillas Red crossmarks Communist guerrillas Green crossmarks
On June 20 the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Program was established, and Haitians would be given the same legal status as Cuban refugees in the United States during the Mariel boatlift. Around 25,000 Haitians would enter the United States during the boatlift. [30] In response, Carter then called for a blockade on the flotilla by the US Coast Guard.
Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
An unwanted war: the diplomacy of the United States and Spain over Cuba, 1895-1898. UNC Press. ISBN 0-8078-4380-6. Núñez Seixas, Xosé M. "Russia and the Russians in the Eyes of the Spanish Blue Division soldiers, 1941–4." Journal of Contemporary History 52.2 (2017): 352–374. online; Payne, Stanley G. (1987-11-15). The Franco regime, 1936 ...
The Relations of the United States and Spain: Diplomacy (1909) online. Also online review of the book, a standard scholarly history; Cortada, James W. "Diplomatic Relations Between Spain and the United States, 1899–1936" Iberian Studies. 1979, 8#2 pp 54–61. Cortada, James W. "Spain and the American Civil War: Relations at Mid-Century, 1855 ...
The Soviet Union's boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics was also a direct response to the United States' boycott to the 1980 Summer Olympics, which the Soviet Union hosted in Moscow. [75] The United States and other countries were boycotting the Soviet Union because of the Afghanistan invasion.
The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. [1] In 1979, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan caused the United States and other Western countries to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, an act reciprocated when the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries (with the ...
In general concept, the 1990 line is based on the 1867 United States – Russia Convention providing for the US purchase of Alaska. From the point, 65° 30' N, 168° 58' 37" W the maritime boundary extends north along the 168° 58' 37" W meridian through the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea into the Arctic Ocean as far as permitted under ...