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28 matches to Hostage Crisis
Hostage Crisis. 1979-81. Iranian miltants sieze US Embassy. Hold 52 hostages 444 days.
Mogadishu Raid. 1977. German commandos rescue hijack hostages.
Scandberg. 1404-68. Albanian prince, raised as hostage in Turkey. Led Albanians vs Turks 1444-66.
Surprise Plot. 1603. To hold James I hostage for religious reform.
Agadir Crisis. 1911. French/German crisis by German manoevres off Morocco.
Aventine Secession. 1924. 150 Italian government members protest Fascist government. Matteotti.
Balkan Crisis. 1875-8. Britain, Austria fear Russian expansion. Congress of Berlin.
Balkan League. 1912-13. Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro. Balkan Wars.
Bay of Pigs. 1961. CIA-financed Cuban invasion by exiles fails. Cuban Missile Crisis.
Bosnian Crisis. 1908-9. Russia sides with Serbian rebels after Austria-Hungary annexation. Black Hand.
Chanak Crisis. 1922. British fear Turkish threat to Dardanelles. Lausanne Peace, 1923.
Cold War. 1946-90. Alternating crisis and detente between west and east, begun with Russia breaking Potsdam Agreement and creating communist regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Coty, René. 1882-1962. President of France, 1954-59. Algerian Crisis 1958, led to return of deGaulle.
Cuban Missile Crisis. 1962. Kennedy blockades Cuba to prevent Soviet missile installation.
Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. British suppression of Muhammed Ali’s Egyptian expansion.
Economic Crisis. 1873. Vienna stock market collapse leads to protectionism, Depression.
Eden, Anthony. 1897-1977. British Prime Minister 55-7. Resigned over Suez Crisis.
French Revolution. 1789-99. Monarchy overthrown. Republic established 1792. Caused by Absolutism, financial crisis, Enlightenment. Terror. Napoleon. French Revolutionary Wars.
Ili Crisis. 1871-81. Russia invades Chinese Ili province.
Kennedy, John. 1917-63. US President 1961-. -“New Frontier”. Peace Corps. Apollo Program. Cuban Missile Crisis. Assassinated by Oswald. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
Lebanese Crisis. 1958. US Marines intervene in Civil War vs Communists.
Matteotti Crisis. 1924. Italian Fascists kill Socialist, Matteotti for denouncing them. Aventine Secession.
Moroccan Crisis. 1905. Germany declares Morocco free of France, Algeciras Conference. 1911 = Agadir Crisis. French gain Morocco, Germany Cameroon, Italy Dodecanese.
Nasser, Abdel. 1918-70. Egypt. Led coup vs Farouk 1952. Prime Minister 1954-6, president 1956-8. UAR president 1958-. Modernized. Suez Crisis.
Near Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. Eastern Crisis.