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The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a political crisis in Lebanon caused by political and religious tensions in the country that included an American military intervention, which lasted for around three months until President Camille Chamoun, who had requested the assistance, completed his term as president of Lebanon.
The 2021 Lebanese-Canadian film Memory Box is based on co-director Joana Hadjithomas' notebooks and tapes made when she was a teenager in Beirut during the civil war in the 1980s. [133] Beirut is a 2018 American political thriller film set in 1982 during the Lebanese Civil War.
The Lebanese Civil War had its origin in the conflicts and political compromises of Lebanon's post-Ottoman period and was exacerbated by the nation's changing demographic trends, inter-religious strife, and proximity to Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Israel.
Part of the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War North Vietnam Laos: 1958 1959 Mexico–Guatemala conflict Guatemala Mexico: 1959 1959 Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959) China: Regiment of Spirit Soldiers 1959 1959 1959 Tibetan uprising China Tibet. Chushi Gangdruk. 1959 1959 1959 Mosul uprising: Iraq: Arab nationalist rebels 1959 1975 Laotian ...
A civil war erupts but short lived after the intervention of 5,000 US Marines ordered by President Eisenhower upon the request of the Lebanese president Camille Chamoun. 1975 Gunmen from the Phalanges , a Lebanese Christian group, ambush a bus in Beirut, killing 27 of its mainly Palestinian Muslim passengers, initiating the Lebanese Civil War ...
Camille Nimr Chamoun OM, ONC (Arabic: كميل نمر شمعون, romanized: Kamīl Nimr Shamʿūn, pronounced [kaˈmiːl ʃamˈʕuːn]; 3 April 1900 – 7 August 1987) was a Lebanese politician who served as the 2nd president of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. [1] He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War.
Lebanese Independence Day (Arabic: عيد الاستقلال اللبناني, romanized: ʿĪd al-Istiqlāl al-Lubnānī, lit. 'Festival of the Lebanese Independence') is the national day of Lebanon, celebrated on 22 November in commemoration of the end of the French control over Lebanon in 1943, after 23 years of Mandate rule.
The conflict peaked during the Lebanese Civil War. In response to Palestinian attacks from Lebanon, Israel invaded the country in 1978 and again in 1982. After this it occupied southern Lebanon until 2000, while fighting a guerrilla conflict against Shia paramilitaries. After Israel's withdrawal, Hezbollah attacks sparked the 2006 Lebanon War.