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Part of the Vietnam War. North Vietnam: Anti-communist rebels 1957 1958 Ifni War Morocco Spain France: 1957 1961 PRRI and Permesta rebellion Indonesia: Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia Permesta: Late 1950s Late 1950s Anti-taxation uprising in Afghanistan [12] Afghanistan: Hazara rebels 1958 1958 14 July Revolution: Free ...
To defend themselves against the offensives of the ARVN, the VC — contrary to the wishes of North Vietnam — began organizing themselves into military units. The first battalion of VC troops was established in War Zone D in mid-1958. Zone D, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Saigon, was an important communist base area.
The 1958 Lebanon crisis was a political crisis in Lebanon caused by political and religious tensions in the country that included ... and the Lebanese Civil War of 1958".
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). ). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China in an attempt to take them from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe ...
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The First Cod War lasted from 1 September 1958 to 11 March 1961. [34] [17] It began as soon as a new Icelandic law came into force and expanded the Icelandic fishery zone from 4 to 12 nautical miles (7.4 to 22.2 km) at midnight on 1 September 1958. All members of NATO opposed the unilateral Icelandic extension. [39]
Based on birth rates (per 1,000 population), the post-war baby boom ends in the United States as an 11-year decline in the birth rate begins (the longest on record in the country). The United Kingdom, Soviet Union and the U.S. agree to stop testing atomic bombs for 3 years. Robert Frank publishes his photographic essay The Americans (in Paris).
The May 1958 crisis (French: Crise de mai 1958), also known as the Algiers putsch or the coup of 13 May, was a political crisis in France during the turmoil of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) which led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic and its replacement by the Fifth Republic led by Charles de Gaulle who returned to power after a twelve-year absence.