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Benelux Customs Union
It was signed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in order to remove customs and to promote free movement of capital, goods, and workers -
Creation of the Plan Marshall
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The Western Powers formed NATO against the communist threat
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Two new states were formed: the German Federal Republic (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic
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USA invades North Korea
But China helps North Korea -
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Korea War
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Treaty of Paris
The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community signed by France, Western Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg -
Dead of Stalin
He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev -
A cease-fire was agreed in Korea
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France lost his South East Asia empire
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Period: to
Vietnam War
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Protests in Poland and Hungary
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The Eastern Bloc formed the Warsaw Pact
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Treaty of Rome
Creation of the European Economic Community -
Castro began a guerrilla war and soon marched on Cuba´s capital, Havana, and overthrew the government.
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The Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the president of the USA
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President Kennedy authorised an invasion of Cuba by rebels
They were defeated. Cuba needed Soviet military assistance: Soviet missiles were shipped to Cuba which could be used to attack US cities -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
To separate the communists of the capitalists -
Cuban missile crisis
The world was on the brink of nuclear war, but on the last minute Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba only if the US promised not to place missiles in Turkey near the Soviet border. Kennedy lifted the blockade and promised not to invade Cuba. -
Civil Rights Act was finally passed
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Death of Khrushchev
He was succedeed by Leonid Brezhnev -
The USA and the USSR signed the strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement
They limited their nuclear weapons -
A cease fire was arranged in Vietnam
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Defeat of the Americans in Vietnam
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Ronald Reagan was elected president of the USA
The period of détente ended -
Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in USSR
The Cold War was ending and the USSR began to reform -
Falls the Berlin Wall
