1982 Event Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks 1981 Event Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1976 Event Venezuela nationalizes oil fields 1975 Event Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth 1971 Event Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines 1971 Event Chile president Allende nationalizes banks/copper mines 1971 Event Algeria nationalizes French oil companies 1970 Event President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines 1969 Event Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests 1965 Event Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies 1962 Event Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses 1960 Event Cuba nationalizes all remaining U.S. businesses 1960 Event Cuba nationalizes U.S. banks 1960 Event Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned sugar factories 1960 Event Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba 1951 Event Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1949 Event Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industry 1948 Event Britain nationalizes its railways 1947 Event Britain nationalizes its coal industry 1938 Event President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes U.S. and British oil companies 1937 Event Mexico nationalizes oil