International Organizations, Defence, Books & Authors, World History

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The Entente Cordiale was a series of agreements signed on 8 April 1904 between the United Kingdom and the French Republic which saw a significant improvement in Anglo-French relations. Beyond the immediate concerns of colonial expansion addressed by the agreement, the signing of the Entente Cordiale marked the end of almost a thousand years of intermittent conflict between the two states and their predecessors and replaced the modus vivendi that had existed since the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 with a more formal agreement. The Entente Cordiale was the culmination of the policy of Théophile Delcassé, France’s foreign minister from 1898, who believed that a Franco-British understanding would give France some security against any German system of alliances in Western Europe. Credit for the success of the negotiation belongs chiefly to Paul Cambon, France’s ambassador, and to the British foreign secretary Lord Lansdowne.

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The United States of America’s foreign intelligence service carried out the covert operation “1954 Guatemalan coup d’etat. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d’etat, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala.

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There are 97 armored regiments in the Indian army including cavalry and lancer regiments. The East India Company had constituted the first artillery regiment in 1748. In 1827, the Royal Indian Artillery regiment was created in the British Indian Army, which was inherited by Independent India.

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Exercise Yudh Abhyas is a joint military exercise between India and USA. It is conducted annually. It is happening since 2005 under a joint agreement.

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The Australian group is a grouping of 43 countries. It is mainly to prevent the spreading of Chemical and Biological weapons. It started in 1985. India joined this group.

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1978-1979 was the period of the “Iranian Revolution”. The Iranian Revolution, locally known as the Islamic Revolution (or the 1979 Revolution), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions in the revolt. The revolution was supported by various Islamist and leftist organizations and student movements.

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Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the author of “Bapu Ke Kadmon Mein”. He wrote the book in 1954.

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Sakha Ganesh Deuskar was the author of the revolutionary book “Desher Katha”. Desher katha was published in 1904 in Bengali. It was translated in 1910 and was named “Desh Ki Baat”.
Sakha Ganesh Deuskar was a revolutionary writer, historian and journalist. His native place was Maharashtra but he was born and brought up in Bengal. His source of inspiration was Maharashtra, but he had writeen his books in Bengali. This book was banned by the British Government.

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After having conquered about the whole of Western Europe, Germany now planned the invasion of Britain. This plan was given the code name of ‘Sea-Lion’. German bombers and fighters started the bombing of British ports, airfields, aircraft factories, etc. But, as a result of the British resistance, operation ‘Sea-Lion’ was indefinitely put off and, by November 1940, the German air raids on London had more or less stopped.

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Axis Powers was the coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. The alliance originated in a series of agreements between Germany and Italy, followed by the proclamation of an “axis” binding Rome and Berlin (October 1936), followed by The German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union (November 1936).