Independence-minded terrorists wage a campaign in Cyprus.Bhutan…
1949 CE
Independence-minded terrorists wage a campaign in Cyprus.
Bhutan gains independence from Britain in 1949 under Indian guidance.
In 1949, the three Western powers consolidate their German occupation sectors into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), a constitutional democracy.
The USSR establishes the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the sector they control.
In 1949, Trans-Jordan becomes the kingdom of Jordan under King Abdullah.
(In the Interwar Era, the departing British erected both the Jordanian and Iraqi dynasties as the means of fulfilling the promise of royal thrones made to the Sharifs of the Hejaz.
As the fact of Saudi hegemony had obviated all claim to former Arabian thrones, the British invented two in the North.
(Iraq’s British-installed king, Abdullah’s brother, lasted from 1932 until 1958, when a pan-Arab revolt massacred the entire dynasty.)
The Gehlen Organization is transferred to CIA control in 1949.
Cardinal Mindszenty is tried in Hungary in 1949 following his brainwashing and confession of conspiracy.