459 résultats pour "usa"
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Wisconsin (state) - USA History.
-6° C (22° F) in the southeast, along the Lake Michigan shore. During winter extremely cold weather persists for several weeks at a time. C2 Precipitation Average annual precipitation ranges from 700 to 800 mm (28 to 32 in). Rainfall is generally heaviest during the spring and summer, and snowfall is generally moderatein the south, but can be quite heavy in the north. Thunderstorms, sometimes accompanied by devastating tornadoes, are common in spring and summer, particularly inthe southern part...
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USA - Iraq War - History.
B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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George Bush - USA History.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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Alabama (state) - USA History.
indentations along the coast are measured, the state’s shoreline is 977 km (607 mi) long. It includes the shores of Mobile Bay, an inlet 56 km (35 mi) long at the mouthof the Mobile River. Barrier beaches partly block the entrance to the bay, leaving narrow openings on either side of Dauphin Island. Dauphin and other islands alongAlabama’s coast west of Mobile Bay are separated from the mainland by Mississippi Sound. D Climate Alabama has a humid subtropical climate, with short, relatively mild...
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Tennessee (state) - USA History.
The climate of Tennessee is characterized by hot summers, mild winters, and abundant rainfall. C1 Temperature Average July temperatures range from less than 21° C (70° F) in the Blue Ridge region to 27° C (80° F) at Nashville and Memphis. Maximum daytime temperatures insummer often rise above 35° C (95° F) in central and western Tennessee. Daytime temperatures in the mountains rarely rise above 32° C (90° F). Summer nights tendto be warm and muggy in central and western Tennessee, but temperatu...
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Wyoming (state) - USA History.
The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...
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Abraham Lincoln - USA History.
fence in 4 hectares (10 acres) to grow corn. Then he hired out to neighbors, helping them to split rails. That year, Lincoln attended a political rally and was persuaded tospeak on behalf of a local candidate. It was his first political speech. A witness recalled that Lincoln “was frightened but got warmed up and made the best speech of theday.” In 1831 Lincoln made a second trip to New Orleans. He was hired, along with his stepbrother and a cousin, by Denton Offutt, a Kentucky trader and specul...
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Washington (state) - USA History.
The crest of the Cascade Range divides Washington into two distinct climatic regions. The area west of the Cascades, which is exposed throughout the year to rain-bearing winds from the Pacific Ocean, has a temperate marine type of climate that is characterized by mild wet winters and cool summers. The Cascades prevent themoist air blowing in from the Pacific from reaching eastern Washington. The Rocky Mountains on the eastern border also represent a climatic barrier. As a result, thesevere winte...
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West Virginia - USA History.
Forests, mostly of hardwood varieties, cover 79 percent of West Virginia. The principal commercial species are the oak, yellow poplar, maple, birch, beech, black walnut,hickory, and gum. Softwoods include pines and hemlock firs. Flowering trees include the wild crab apple, dogwood, hawthorn, and redbud. Among the many floweringbushes and plants are the rhododendron, which is the state flower, the laurel, blueberry, hepatica, wild geranium, and black-eyed Susan. Insects and disease, mostly introd...
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New Jersey - USA History.
C Soils Broadly defined, all of New Jersey’s soils are podzolic soils; that is, they are acidic and contain fairly high amounts of iron oxides. The soils in northern New Jersey areirregular in quality and contain rock fragments and small stones deposited by the continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. The soils of the inner coastal plain, unaffectedby glaciation, are the richest in the state, while those of the outer coastal plain are generally infertile. The newer soil classification system d...
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North Carolina - USA History.
The drainage divide in North Carolina follows the Blue Ridge range on the eastern margin of the mountain region. This is called the “Eastern Continental Divide.” West ofthis divide, rivers drain into the Mississippi River through the Tennessee River and other tributaries of the Ohio River. The French Broad, the largest, and the LittleTennessee flow into the Tennessee River. The New River flows into the Kanawha River of West Virginia which in turn flows into the Ohio River. Most of the state’s ri...
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Ancient Rome - USA History.
attributed to Numa, including the selection of virgins to be priestesses of the goddess Vesta. He also established a calendar to differentiate between normal workingdays and those festival days sacred to the gods on which no state business was allowed. His peaceful reign lasted from 715 to 673 BC. Under Tullus Hostilius (672–641 BC) the Romans waged an aggressive foreign policy and began to expand their lands by the conquest of nearby cities like Alba Longa. When the warlike King Hostilius co...
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Hawaii (state) - USA History.
limestone along the coast. The volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands are all so-called shield volcanoes, or lava domes. Unlike the volcanoes of Alaska and South America, those of Hawaii were notcreated by very explosive eruptions. Formed mostly by lava flows, they are great rounded mountain masses, rather than steep-sided cones. Mauna Kea, dormant forcenturies, is the highest mountain in the state. It rises to 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level, and its summit is dotted with cinder cones formed by...
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New York - USA History.
The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...
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Georgia (state) - USA History.
B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...
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Le Monde à l’apogée de la Guerre Froide (1947 – 1962) - Histoire
Les relat° éco entre Usa et Europe vt constituer les fondements de l’Atlantisme. Une des conséquences immédiates du PM, c’est le départ des communistes des gvts européens (F, GB, I, Lux…) Réplique communiste : créat° du Kominform + formulat° de la doctrine Jdanov. La crainte de l’URSS est que les USA étendent tp de leur influence sur le continent américain grâce à sa force financière. L’URSS n’a pas les moyens financiers de répondre au PM, mais va répondre sur le plan idéologique : répond au...
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- Joseph McCarthy (politician) - USA History.
- John Smith (colonizer) - USA History.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - USA History.
- John Marshall (jurist) - USA History.
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Les relations internationales
LES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES Un jeu de puissance dans un espace mondialisé de 1945 à nos jours -régler sort de l’All divis° en 4 zones d’occupat° (URSS,USA,GB,FR ) -restaurat° démocratie pays libérés du joug nazi ( Europe centrale & orientale) -créat° de l’ONU (pour le maintien de la paix) Juillet-Août 1945 : Conférence de Postdam Staline, Truman (remplace Roosevelt), Churchill qui↘ est vite remplacé par Attle après élection....
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Recap of the notions
RECAPITULATION OF THE NOTIONS multicultural society, with the emergence of TV channels in Spanish for example. Another illustration of these exchanges is Spanglish : it shows the influence of Spanish over the English language. Actually, it is not only a matter of linguistics, it has also become a commercial strategy to target the Latino community in the USA. When big American firms want to sell their products to the Spanish-speaking community, they often use Spanglish in their ads. It is a...
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Modèle soviétique et modèle américain de 1945 à 1991
chômage illusoire et un faible niveau de vie même s’il remonte sous Brejnev pour s’écrouler à nouveau sous Gorbatchev. Ces idéologies sont alors diffusées dans le monde USA se voient comme le modèle le plus parfait et prennent pour mission manifeste de faire tomber le monde dans leur sillon surtout dans un contexte de GF où l’on cherche à endiguer le communisme. Néanmoins, l’URSS se rapproche du Tiers Monde et fait alors tomber de nombreux pays dans leur idéologie...
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Motorradsport: Weltmeister.
1993 Dirk Raudies (Deutschland) Honda 1994 Kazuto Sakata (Japan) Aprilia 1995 Haruchika Aoki (Japan) Honda 1996 Haruchika Aoki (Japan) Honda 1997 Valentino Rossi (Italien) Aprilia 1998 Kazuto Sakata (Japan) Aprilia 1999 Emilio Alzamora (Spanien) Honda 2000 Roberto Locatelli (Italien) Aprilia 2001 Manuel Poggiali (San Marino) Gilera 2002 Daniel Pedrosa (Spanien) Honda 2003 Daniel Pedrosa (Spanien) Honda 2004 Andrea Dovizioso (Italien) Honda 2005 Thomas Lüthi (Schweiz) Honda 2006 Alvaro Bautista (...
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- Tennis de table : Les rapports USA-Chine populaire .
- Déclaration de guerre: USA (seconde guerre mondiale).
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Le rêve américain
C’est dès le XVème siècle, avec la découverte de l'Amérique par Christophe Colomb en 1492, que l’émigration vers l’Amérique a commencée. De 1492 à 1585, les premiers européens arrivent en Amérique du Nord. Dès la première moitié du XVIe siècle, les Espagnols pénètrent sur le territoire actuel des États-Unis, mais sans s'implanter de façon durable. Les premiers à véritablement s’installer dans ce « New World » furent les Anglais, poussés par les rois Henri VII et Henri VIII qui vantaient...
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Les grandes crises de la guerre froide
place un gigantesque « pont aérien » pendant 11 mois, des milliers d'avions vont transporter des millions de tonnes de ravitaillement. Parallèlement, les USA font savoir à Staline qu'ils utiliseront la force pour maintenir libres les couloirs aériens : la tension est très forte. En juin 1949, Staline, impuissant à faire céder Berlin-Ouest, estime plus prudent de ne pas insister et lève le blocus, reconnaissant ainsi implicitement sa première défaite dans la guerre froide. Après cela, la division...
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Michel Collon - Israel, parlons-en
péninsule arabique et son pétrole. C’est pourquoi les américains auraient donné leur feu vert à une attaque, dite préventive, contre l’ egypte de Nasser en 1967. 26)Israel est soutenu parce que c’est le seul pilier solide des USA au Moyen Orient ? Oui. Seul soutien de leur hégémonie au pays de l’or noir. Et surtout lorsque le deuxieme pilier ( l’Iran du Chah) leur fait faux bon suite à la revolution islamique en 1979. Car l arabie saoudite ne dispose pas de ressources demographiques ou m...
- LES USA DE JOHN F. KENNEDY À RICHARD NIXON
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Nahostkonflikt - Geschichte.
Seit dem Regierungsantritt Benjamin Netanjahus in Israel 1996 kam der Friedensprozess von israelischer Seite her zum Erliegen, was zu (vergeblichen) internationalenProtesten und einer zeitweiligen Entfremdung zwischen Israel und den USA führte. Nach wiederum langwierigen Verhandlungen zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern kamim Januar 1997 ein Abkommen über den israelischen Abzug aus Hebron zustande. Umgesetzt wurde das Abkommen jedoch vorerst nicht; vielmehr erschwerte Israel denFriedensprozes...
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Weltraumforschung - Astronomie.
veröffentlichte. In der jüngeren Vergangenheit wurde die Vorstellung vom Raumflug durch Sciencefiction-Literatur am Leben gehalten. 4.1 Frühe Entwicklungen Zu den Zeiten, als die Reise in den Weltraum dem Reich der Phantasie angehörte, entwickelten Forscher aus verschiedenen Bereichen ein Verständnis für das Sonnensystemund das Universum. Im 7. und 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr. stellten die griechischen Philosophen Thales und Pythagoras fest, dass die Erde eine Kugel ist. Im 3. Jahrhundertv. Chr. erka...
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Amerikanische Literatur (Sprache & Litteratur).
toleranten Aufklärers Kritik sowohl am Christentum wie auch am Atheismus, wobei ersteres heftige Reaktionen von Seiten des amerikanischen Publikums nach sich zog.Äußerst stark rezipiert hingegen wurde die gegen England gerichtete Satire M’Fingal (1775-1782) des Rechtsgelehrten und Dichters John Trumbull. Politisch engagierte Lyrik schrieb auch der vielseitig interessierte Dichter Philip Morin Freneau, dessen allegorisches Gedicht The House of Night (1779) Merkmale der in der Romantik verbrei...
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Sandra Day O'Connor - USA History.
sex discrimination. VI RETIREMENT AND WRITINGS O’Connor was widely viewed as a likely successor to Rehnquist as chief justice. However, on July 1, 2005, she announced her resignation from the Court, effective uponthe confirmation of a successor. O’Connor’s principal reason for stepping down was reportedly to spend more time with her husband, who was said to have Alzheimer’sdisease. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., replaced O’Connor on the Court. O’Connor collaborated with her brother, H. Alan Day...
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W. E. B. Du Bois - USA History.
VI PEACE ACTIVIST After World War II (1939-1945), Du Bois became increasingly involved in promoting world peace and nuclear disarmament. In 1950 he became chairman of the PeaceInformation Center in New York City, a group whose stated objective was to gather signatures in the United States for a global petition to ban the use of nuclearweapons. In July of that year, after the organization had gathered more than one million U.S. signatures, the Peace Center was labeled a Communist-front organiza...
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George Herbert Walker Bush - USA History.
Lebanon. More troubling was the disclosure that agents operating under direct White House supervision used profits from the arms sales to buy weapons for thecontras, a group of anti-government Nicaraguan rebels, despite an explicit congressional ban on such aid. Bush later claimed that he opposed the arms-for-hostagesdeal, but offered little evidence to back his claims ( see Iran-Contra Affair). C 1988 Presidential Election While the Reagan-Bush program helped produce prosperity for the wealth...
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Egyptian Art and Architecture - USA History.
The kings of the 1st Dynasty (2920 BC-2770 BC) were buried in the cemetery of their ancestors at Abydos in southern Egypt. Their burial sites were built of mud brick (bricks baked in the sun) and consisted of two parts: a tomb in the desert where the king was buried, and a rectangular funerary enclosure at the desert's edge, whererituals were performed. A pair of stone slabs called stelae marked the tombs and bore the name of the royal occupant. In the 2nd Dynasty (2770 BC-2649 BC), most r...
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Greek Art and Architecture - USA History.
The struggle between these two city-states and their allies ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which Sparta won. Despite this conflict, the 5th century, often called the Classical period, is usually considered the culmination of Greek art, architecture, and drama, with its highest achievements being the Temple ofZeus at Olympia, the Parthenon in Athens, and the plays of Athenian dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The 4th century, or Late Classical p...
- Industrie sidérurgique: USA (histoire de la seconde guerre mondiale).
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La guerre du vietnam
II. Le déroulement de la guerre du Vietnam 1. L’implication des USA dans la guerre (1964-1967) • L’incident du golfe de Tonkin (1964): un destroyer américain, en croisière d’espionnage dans la zone du golfe de Tonkin est attaqué par des vedettes nord vietnamiennes. Cet incident fournit au président Johnson le prétexte à un engagement militaire massif contre les Nord- Vietnamiens. C’est un déluge de bombes de tous types : C’est le début de la guerre du Vietnam • A partir de 1965, commencent...
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- QUINTET ROBERT ALTMAN/USA/I978 (analyse du film).
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Erster Weltkrieg - Geschichte.
(Schlieffenplan) vorzugehen. Dieser noch vom einstigen Generalstabschef Alfred Graf von Schlieffen entworfene Plan, seit 1905 nur mehr geringfügig überarbeitet, warlediglich für einen drohenden Zweifrontenkrieg gegen Frankreich und Russland konzipiert und sollte den Krieg in zwei Phasen zerlegen. Zunächst wollte der Generalstab Frankreich im Zuge einer „Niederwerfungsstrategie” innerhalb von etwa sechs Wochen besiegen, um anschließend – noch vor der endgültigabgeschlossenen Mobilmachung Russland...
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Erster Weltkrieg - Geschichte.
(Schlieffenplan) vorzugehen. Dieser noch vom einstigen Generalstabschef Alfred Graf von Schlieffen entworfene Plan, seit 1905 nur mehr geringfügig überarbeitet, warlediglich für einen drohenden Zweifrontenkrieg gegen Frankreich und Russland konzipiert und sollte den Krieg in zwei Phasen zerlegen. Zunächst wollte der Generalstab Frankreich im Zuge einer „Niederwerfungsstrategie” innerhalb von etwa sechs Wochen besiegen, um anschließend – noch vor der endgültigabgeschlossenen Mobilmachung Russland...
- John Paul Jones (naval officer) - USA History.
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Le pétrole dans le monde
Colt tec:hnique (d'exploitation) du baril ~ l'rb Mil- tl l'rb IUXI (et! $) MnvPn-OriPnl Amériaue du Nord Amériaue du Sud Europe -Afrique intègre la totalité des pays de l'Opep , ce chiffre est porté à environ 110 milliards de tonnes avec 35.7 milliards de tonnes concentrées dans le sous-sol de l 'Arabie Saoudite . nA 2 1 ,5 7 1 • Le problème n'est pas tant la présence ou non de pétrole mais sa rentabilité. Ainsi , si la Grande -Bretagne et la...
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Juin 1963 dans le monde (histoire chronologique)
VENDREDI 7 USA. À la suite de violents conflits TEC:;:;�TIQUES raciaux, t'état d'urgence est décrété à .t11 � Lexington. en Caroline du Nord. MARDI 11 USA. En dépit du refus du gouverneur de l'Alabama, deux étudiants noirs s'inscrivent à l'université sous la protec tion des troupes fédérales. Viêt-nam du Sud. Un moine boud dhiste s'immole par le feu à Saïgon pour protester contre la politique de Ngô Dinh Diêm. SAMEDI 15 France. Ouverture du pre...
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Le Royaume Uni, les USA
La Grande Bretagne
Britain
Les îles britanniques
The British
Edimbourg Edinburgh La Ta mise Th e Th ames La mer du Nord Th e North Sea La Manche Th e (english) Channel Le Pas-de-Calais Th e Straits o f Dover Les Iles anglo- normandes Th e Channe l islands Une colonie A colon y La mère patrie Th e mother country Émigrer To emigrate S’établir To settle Un colon A settler L’empire colonial Th e Empire L’autonomie Autonom y, self-governmen tAutonome Self-governing Le Common wealth Th e Common wealth Le Canada Canada L’Australie Australia La...
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Berlin, a crucial issue for the USA during the Cold War
control of the city. The United States responded with an airlift that went on for 300 days, with nearly 2 millions of tons of supplies until Stalin finally backed off and signed an agreement with the other three powers, guaranteeing 3 Western airlifts and roads access to the enclave. Over the 50's decade, West Berlin had grown free and prosperous while East Berlin had stagnated under the Soviet boot. Easterners were emigrating to the West in droves, using West Berlin as their transit point....
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Croissance Et mondialisation depuis 1850
le dvpt de la chimie, mais aussi des grands complexes et des premières grande entreprise appelées FMN (firme multinational). Ce dynamisme est pourtant irréguliers comme en témoigne la grandes de dépression de 1973 à 1996, mais elle ne fait que ralentir la croissance, puisque la seconde révolution industrielle débute et qu’elle profite de la mise en place d’une nouvelle organisation du travail. En effet Ford, associé à Taylor, met en p...
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1965 Février dans le monde (histoire chronologique)
JEUDI Il France. Le mmlStre des Finances Valéry Giscard d'Estaing annonce que la France se retire du svstème du Gold Exchangc Stan dard . · VENDREDI 12 OCAM. L'UAMCE (Union africaine et m alga che de coopération économique) de vien t I'OCAM (Organisation commune afr ica in e et malgache ) sous la présidence de Moktar Ould Oadd ah . LU Dl _______ 15 France/Inde/Pakistan. A l'issue d'un voyage en Inde et au Pakistan, Georges Pompidou promet un accro...