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Ethiopia Modern History

Ethiopia is a country located in Eastern Africa. With the capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has a population of 114,963,599 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Dissatisfaction with corruption and lack of development contributed to the overthrow of the military by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. He had ruled the country a… Read More »

Fiji Modern History

Fiji is a country located in Melanesia. With the capital city of Suva, Fiji has a population of 896,456 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Since Fiji became an independent state in 1970, the country’s politics have been marked by contradictions between the Fijian indigenous people and the descendants of the Indians who came… Read More »

Finland Modern History

Finland is a country located in Northern Europe. With the capital city of Helsinki, Finland has a population of 5,540,731 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After World War II, a peace treaty was concluded between Finland and the Soviet Union in Paris in 1947. In it, the borders of the Winter War 1940… Read More »

France Modern History

France is a country located in Western Europe. With the capital city of Paris, France has a population of 65,273,522 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Political instability and a disintegrating colonial rule led to the return of war hero Charles de Gaulle in 1958 as leader. The 1960s were financially successful but were… Read More »

Gabon Modern History

Gabon is a country located in Central Africa. With the capital city of Libreville, Gabon has a population of 2,225,745 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Most of the time since independence in 1960, Gabon has been dominated by the Bongo family and its party PDG: first President Omar Bongo from 1967 and after… Read More »

Gambia Modern History

Gambia is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Banjul, Gambia has a population of 2,416,679 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The Gambia became independent from the UK in 1965. The country’s first leader was Dawda Jawara. After a coup attempt in 1981, the country formed a confederation with… Read More »

Georgia Modern History

Georgia is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Tbilisi, Georgia has a population of 3,989,178 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In March 1991, Georgians voted with great majority for full independence and in April Georgia was proclaimed an independent state. In May, Zviad Gamsachurdia, the President of Parliament,… Read More »

Germany Modern History

Germany is a country located in Western Europe. With the capital city of Berlin, Germany has a population of 83,783,953 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945, Germany and Berlin were divided into four occupation zones. Of the American, British and French zones,… Read More »

Ghana Modern History

Ghana is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Accra, Ghana has a population of 31,072,951 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Of all the British colonies in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana was the first to become independent. In 1957 the country became a nation of the Commonwealth (Britain and former… Read More »

Greece Modern History

Greece is a country located in Southern Europe. With the capital city of Athens, Greece has a population of 10,423,065 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The bourgeois government returned from exile after the Second World War. The contradictions to the communist resistance movement EAM were great and led to civil war. With American… Read More »

Grenada Modern History

Grenada is a country located in North America. With the capital city of Saint George’s, Grenada has a population of 112,534 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The development of Grenada after independence in 1974 soon became dramatic. In 1979 Maurice Bishop took power in a bloodless coup and introduced a Marxist rule. Bishop… Read More »

Guatemala Modern History

Guatemala is a country located in North America. With the capital city of Guatemala City, Guatemala has a population of 17,915,579 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Between 1954 and 1985, Guatemala was a military dictatorship. Heavy repression and uneven land distribution led to a civil war between the guerrillas and the army in… Read More »

Guinea Modern History

Guinea is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Conakry, Guinea has a population of 13,132,806 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. When Guinea’s strong man Sekou Touré died in 1984, the military took power in a coup. The country’s new leader Lansana Conté led a strict regime, although after… Read More »

Guinea-Bissau Modern History

Guinea-Bissau is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau has a population of 1,968,012 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After an eleven-year-long liberation war, Guinea-Bissau had become an independent state in 1974, but from the beginning the problems accumulated. The economy was in crisis and there was… Read More »

Guyana Modern History

Guyana is a country located in South America. With the capital city of Georgetown, Guyana has a population of 786,563 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Guyana has long had close ties to the Soviet Union and other socialist states. When state corporate ownership and plan management were leading the country toward economic collapse,… Read More »

Haiti Modern History

Haiti is a country located in North America. With the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti has a population of 11,402,539 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Haiti has been characterized by economic mismanagement and political repression since the mid-1950s, periodically pure terror. The decline began during the Duvalier family’s almost 30-year dictatorship, but even… Read More »

Vatican City Modern History

Holy See is a country located in Southern Europe. With the capital city of Vatican City, Holy See has a population of 812 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. During World War II, Rome was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1943 and by the Allies from 1944, but the Vatican City was not occupied.… Read More »

Honduras Modern History

Honduras is a country located in North America. With the capital city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras has a population of 9,904,618 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Except for a short period of 1957–1963, Honduras has been largely controlled by the military throughout the country’s entire modern history. An attempt to separate the military from… Read More »

Hungary Modern History

Hungary is a country located in Eastern Europe. With the capital city of Budapest, Hungary has a population of 9,660,362 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In communist-controlled Hungary, a people revolt erupted in 1956, but it was defeated by the Soviet military and followed by a harsh and Moscow regime. Many fled the… Read More »

Iceland Modern History

Iceland is a country located in Northern Europe. With the capital city of Reykjavik, Iceland has a population of 341,254 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. In 1944, when World War II was still going on, Iceland became a republic by dissolving a union with Denmark. After the end of the war, the United… Read More »

India Modern History

India is a country located in Southern Asia. With the capital city of New Delhi, India has a population of 1,380,004,396 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The division of British India into the Indian Union and Pakistan in 1947 has characterized India’s modern history. The two neighboring countries have gone to war against… Read More »

Indonesia Modern History

Indonesia is a country located in Southeastern Asia. With the capital city of Jakarta, Indonesia has a population of 273,523,626 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Indonesia’s modern history is characterized by General Suharto’s long holding of power from 1968 to 1998. His authoritarian regime was dominated by the military and the army-controlled party… Read More »

Iran Modern History

Iran is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Tehran, Iran has a population of 83,992,960 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Following a decision in Parliament to nationalize the oil industry, a military coup was carried out in which the Prime Minister was ousted in 1953, and the Shah… Read More »

Iraq Modern History

Iraq is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Baghdad, Iraq has a population of 40,222,504 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Iraq became independent in 1932 but the British influence remained until the monarchy was abolished in a military coup in 1958. Ten years later, the Baath Party took… Read More »

Ireland Modern History

Ireland is a country located in Northern Europe. With the capital city of Dublin, Ireland has a population of 4,937,797 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. From the 1920s onwards, Ireland continued its liberation from Britain. Politics was dominated by two bourgeois parties and the Catholic Church maintained its grip on society. The situation… Read More »

Israel Modern History

Israel is a country located in Western Asia. With the capital city of Jerusalem, Israel has a population of 8,655,546 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. The modern Israeli state was proclaimed in 1948. Several wars since then have led to the growth of Israel’s surface. But peace agreements have only been reached with… Read More »

Italy Modern History

Italy is a country located in Southern Europe. With the capital city of Rome, Italy has a population of 60,461,837 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After World War II ended, King Viktor Emanuel III abdicated in 1946 in favor of his son Umberto II. After a referendum given to the supporters of the… Read More »

Ivory Coast Modern History

Ivory Coast is a country located in Western Africa. With the capital city of Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast has a population of 26,378,285 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Since the death of the country’s strong man Félix Houphouët-Boignys in 1993, a long period of political unrest followed, in which politicians played on ethnic contradictions… Read More »

Jamaica Modern History

Jamaica is a country located in North America. With the capital city of Kingston, Jamaica has a population of 2,961,178 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. Since independence from the British in 1962, the right-wing Jamaica’s Labor Party (JLP) and the Socialist People’s Nationalist Party (PNP) have been reversed by government. The era since… Read More »

Japan Modern History

Japan is a country located in Eastern Asia. With the capital city of Tokyo, Japan has a population of 126,476,472 based on a recent census from COUNTRYAAH. After World War II, Japan has been a peaceful and democratic nation focused on economic development and large trade exchanges with other countries. Politics has almost always been… Read More »