1. The Cold War- Defiance, Movements and Backlashes
... a global impact. Many universities around the world, like Free university in West Berlin, looked to Berkeley and the social movement in the U.S for example. This in turn led to the Iranian Revolution as students and then the public began to protest the Shah's regime (The Global Disruption of 1968). Since the U.S overthrew Mossadeq in 1953, Iran, under the Shah, became a powerful U.S ally. As the Shah's regime, supported by the U.S., became increasingly repressive, riots in 1978 developed into a state ... of them college students, swarmed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, seizing the embassy e...
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