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Gaullism and the 5th Republic
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Jan Masayrk and the Prague Spring
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The Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek government army, backed by the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), the military branch of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), backed by Yugoslavia and Albania as well as Bulgaria. The result was the defeat of the Communist insurgents by the government forces. The civil war was the result of a highly polarized struggle between left and right that started in 1943 and targeted the power vacu -
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First Indochina War
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The Berlin Airlift and the Wall
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Joseph Tito and the Communist Bloc
After disagreements between Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and Albania, a Tito–Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948. The split created two separate communist forces in Europe. Stalin ordered the conversion of the Cominform into an instrument to monitor and control internal affairs of other Eastern Bloc parties. He briefly considered also converting the Cominform into an instrument for sentencing high-r -
The European Coal and Steel Community
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Khruschev and the 20th party Congress
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The Suez Crisis
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Hungarian uprising and Soviet invasion
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European Economic Community
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Algerian War of Independence Accords
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Solidarity and Martial Law
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Thatcherism - Cold Warrior, the Welfare State, & The Falkland War
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Gorbachev - Perestroika and Glastnot
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Willy Brandt & Ostpolitik
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Fall of Ceausescu
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The Velvet Revolution
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Fall of the Wall and German Reunification
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Yeltsin and the Coup
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Balkanization - Yugoslav Wars
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Maastricht Treaty
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Putin - Russian Resurgent Nationalism
Putin's attempt to re-annex the territories of Crimea and other portions of the Ukraine into Russia. This feat was met with strong resistance by the United States and other members of NATO.
