Category: Nicaragua

North America 1914

Banana Wars

Political instability in the...

South America 1914

Opening of the Panama Canal

After ten years construction, the...

South America 1918

South America in the Great War

When World War I broke out in...

North America 1929

Wall Street Crash

Further measures to ensure world...

South America 1930

Vargas Revolution

Already unstable, South America was...

South America 1933

Chaco War

Bolivia and Paraguay were both left...

North America 1934

Great Depression

The Great Depression hit the United...

South America 1942

Brazil enters World War II

On 7 December 1941, Japan bombed...

North America 1944

America in World War II

Following the Japanese attack on...

South America 1948

Rio Pact

Following the end of World War II,...

North America 1949

North Atlantic Treaty

World War II left the United States...

South America 1962

Cold War reaches Latin America

Less than a month after the signing...