CHAPTER 6: Changes in major global economic and political issues (1970 - 1991)

1973

1973

Oil Crisis

October 1973

Yom Kippur War

1971

Overthrow of the Bretton Woods Conference principles

1976

Jamaica Agreements

1976

Death of Mao, succession war

1978

Deng Xiaoping launched a programme called "The Four Modernisations" in 4 areas (agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defence)

1980

4 SEZs in China (Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shantou, Zhuhai)

1979

One child policy in China

1951 Iran

Mohammed Reza, the oil industry was nationalised, having previously been run by a British company called the Anglo Iranian Oil Company

1963

White Revolution

1978

Tribune published against the Shah, student protests against the government in power

16 January 1979

Mohammed Reza is overthrown and exiled

1 April 1979

Ayatollah Khomeiny became the Supreme Guide

4 November 1979

The US ambassy was burned

1958 to 1969

Charles De Gaulle President

1969 to 1974

Pompidou president

1974 to 1981

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing president

25 April 1974

Carnation Revolution in Portugal, lasting 1 day which marked the end of Salazar's dictatorship

1992

Maastricht Treaty founding the EU. It provides for the creation of the Schengen area, an area of free movement of goods and people, a common currency and a European Parliament

26 April 1986

Chernobyl

9 November 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

3 October 1990

Reunification of Germany

1989 China

student demonstrations lasted 7 weeks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing à call for the 5th modernisation, in reference to the DX programme, which called for democracy and freedoms. This was repressed by the authorities.

1985 USSR

2 reforms in order to keep the nation afloat: Glasnot and Perestroika

25 December 1991

End of the Cold War and the end of the USSR.

July 1991

Dissolvation of the Warsaw Pact