What was the main objective of the Baruch Plan?
Learn more about the proposal made by the USA on the reduction of its atomic arsenal in the mid-1940s.
Entries by Justin Ng
What was the purpose of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks?
Learn more about the bilateral conferences and treaties signed between the USA and the Soviet Union in 1972 and 1974 that characterised the Détente.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Learn more about the European Recovery Program that helped to rehabilitate post-war Europe from 1948 to 1951.
What does the flying geese model suggest?
Learn more about the flying geese model that explained the economic miracle of Taiwan and South Korea.
What happened in the Velvet Revolution?
Learn more about the nation-wide protest movement in Czechoslovakia that brought Communist rule to an end.
Why is Myanmar’s military so powerful?
Learn more about the dominance of the military in the politics of independent Burma.
How did Singapore respond to the Cambodian Crisis of 1979?
Learn more about the Singapore government’s response to the 1979 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
What is the purpose of Tripoli Agreement?
Learn more about a historic document that defined Mindano peace process, known as the Tripoli Agreement of 1976.
What is the Free Aceh Movement?
Learn more about the Free Aceh Movement, a separatist group that sought independence from Indonesia from 1976 to 2005.
What role did Boris Yeltsin play in the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Learn more about Boris Yeltsin’s role in opposing the coup attempt by the ‘Gang of Eight’ and its impact on the collapse of the Soviet Union.