It's interesting to see how regional and international politics intersected, as shown in the Indo-Pakistani conflict...
International History
1971 - Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War. The war ended with the surrender of the Pakistani military to the forces of India and Bangladesh and Bangladesh became an independent nation, the world's third most populous Muslim state.
The United States supported Pakistan both politically and materially. Nixon, backed by Henry Kissinger, feared Soviet expansion into South and Southeast Asia. Pakistan was a close ally of the People's Republic of China, with whom Nixon had been negotiating a rapprochement and where he intended to visit in February 1972. Nixon feared that an Indian invasion of West Pakistan would mean total Soviet domination of the region, and that it would seriously undermine the global position of the United States and the regional position of America's new tacit ally, China.
The Soviet Union sympathized with the Bangladeshis, and supported the Indian Army and Mukti Bahini during the war, recognizing that the independence of Bangladesh would weaken the position of its rivals - the United States and China. The USSR gave assurances to India that if a confrontation with the United States or China developed, it would take countermeasures. This assurance was enshrined in the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty signed in August 1971.
1991 - In two concurring referendums, 74 % of the population of Latvia and 83% of the population in Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
International History
1971 - Beginning of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and India's official entry to the Bangladesh Liberation War. The war ended with the surrender of the Pakistani military to the forces of India and Bangladesh and Bangladesh became an independent nation, the world's third most populous Muslim state.
The United States supported Pakistan both politically and materially. Nixon, backed by Henry Kissinger, feared Soviet expansion into South and Southeast Asia. Pakistan was a close ally of the People's Republic of China, with whom Nixon had been negotiating a rapprochement and where he intended to visit in February 1972. Nixon feared that an Indian invasion of West Pakistan would mean total Soviet domination of the region, and that it would seriously undermine the global position of the United States and the regional position of America's new tacit ally, China.
The Soviet Union sympathized with the Bangladeshis, and supported the Indian Army and Mukti Bahini during the war, recognizing that the independence of Bangladesh would weaken the position of its rivals - the United States and China. The USSR gave assurances to India that if a confrontation with the United States or China developed, it would take countermeasures. This assurance was enshrined in the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty signed in August 1971.
1991 - In two concurring referendums, 74 % of the population of Latvia and 83% of the population in Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union.
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