Malayan Emergency
1948–1960 · Event
Britain fights a long counter-insurgency against communist guerrillas in Malaya, a model later studied for the Vietnam War.
On these timelines: Southeast Asia, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Southeast Asia
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- Tet Offensive (1968)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Indian Ocean tsunami (2004)
- Construction of Angkor Wat (1113)
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954)
- Borobudur completed (825)
- Indonesian mass killings of 1965 (1965)
Around 1948
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)