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Indian independence is achieved and the country is split in two.
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Jewish people escape Nazi control and the UN gives land to the Jewish.
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The event of taking supplies into Berlin
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State emergency is imposed in response to the rebel uprising.
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War breaks out in Algeria lead by the FLN and terrorists attacks take place in Paris.
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A rise of Arab nationalism helps promote Nasser and his idea of taking control of government.
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African nationalism, racial equality and Pan-Africanism gathers pace in early 1900s. Independence is gained in Ghana.
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Batista is installed by American backers but is defeated by communist leader Castro in armed coup.
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As the US is determined to keep communism from the Americas, Kennedy inherits a CIA plan to get rid of Castro.
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The physical barrier constructed as a symbol of the ideological divide between the West and East.
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The US and USSR start stockpiling nuclear weapons in an arms-race.
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S.E. Asian countries want independence from colonial rule, the US fears a spread of communism will replace colonial rule.
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Tens on millions die is China due to starvation.
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A war fought between Egypt and Israel.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - bilateral discussions on disarmament of control.
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Embraces capitalism, opens borders, cultural and economic reforms, globalism.
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Iraq was divided along ethnic lines between Arabs and Kurds as well as Sunni and Shia Muslims. Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, became leader in 1979 and suppresses ethnic Kurds and Shias.
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Gorbachev is elected president. He introduces the above reforms. The process reduces the tensions of the Cold War.
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Glasnost (openness) - the Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues which helps democratize the Soviet Union.
