Modern Era · South America · War

1982

Falklands War

April 2, 1982

Argentine marines landed on the bleak South Atlantic islands Britain had ruled for a hundred and forty-nine years. Margaret Thatcher sent a task force eight thousand miles to take them back. Ten weeks later the Argentines surrendered at Stanley. Seven hundred died. The Argentine junta collapsed; Thatcher won reelection in a landslide.

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Before and after in South America

Before: November 18, 1978: Jonestown mass suicide
After: June 1992: Earth Summit in Rio

Before and after in War

Before: September 22, 1980: Iran-Iraq War begins
After: September 26, 1983: Petrov averts nuclear war

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Falklands War