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Cold War
The Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945 when the uneasy alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other started to fall apart.
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San Francisco Conference
The UN is created in San Francisco including 51 countries. Among them, the first four to create it were the US, USSR, UK, China, and France.
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The Truman Doctrine
It was a speech by the former President Harry Truman, in which he declares that the world is now divided between democracies and authoritarian regimes and that U.S. will embark on an interventionist policy of providing military and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism.
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a US-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. Source:Britannica -
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Berlin Blockade
The Allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of Germany into a single economic unit in West Germany. However, the Soviets regarded it as a violation of agreements with the Allies, so occupation forces in eastern Germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between East and the West.
Nevertheless, the United States and Britain supplied the city by air.
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NATO Creation
Western European countries formed a military alliance with the U.S. and Canada to create the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II.
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Korean War
It was a conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when the first one was supported by the USSR and the Republic of China, and the second one by the US.
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Death of Joseph Stalin
After the death of Stalin, a period of instability followed during which Nikita Khrushchev gradually established himself as the country's new leader.
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The Hungarian Revolution
Encouraged by the new freedom of debate and criticism, a rising tide of unrest and discontent in Hungary broke out into active fighting. Rebels won the first phase of the revolution but, on November 4th, the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution.
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Launch of Sputnik 1
On Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth’s orbit. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. After about three months, Sputnik fell into the Earth’s atmosphere and burned up.
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The Great Leap Forward
It was a campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems.
Errors in implementation were made worse by a series of natural disasters and the withdrawal of Soviet support.
In all, about 20 million people were estimated to have died of starvation between 1959 and 1962.
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Algerian War
It was the war for Algerian independence from France.
In 1959 Charles de Gaulle declared that the Algerians had the right to determine their own future, and in 1962 an agreement was signed.
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The Cultural Revolution
It was launched under the direction of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, who wished to renew the spirit of the communist revolution and root out those he considered to be “bourgeois” infiltrators.
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