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The communist people's Liberation Army and anticommunist forces support by great Britain were fihting each other for the control of Greece in 1946
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The possibility of soviet expasion into the eastern Mediterranean, responded in early 1947 with the Truman Doctrine.
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The timetable of the soviet takeover varied from country to country. Between 1945 and 1947.
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The Truman Doctrine was followed in June 1947 by the European Recovery Program. The program was designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe,
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By February 1948, Great Britain, France , and the United States were making plans to unify thr three Western sections of germany
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in April 1949 when belgium, Luxembourg, France
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From 1949 to 1963 Konrad Adenauer, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union served as chacellor.
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By 1950, industrial output in europe was 30% above prewar levels.
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The New Deal had brought basic changes to American Society.
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West Berlin remained a "Western island" of properity in the midst of the relatively poverty-stricken East Germany>
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In 1956, protests erupted in Poland. In response the polish communist party adopted a series of reforms in october 1956.
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The indrustrial growth rate, which had soared in the early 1950's now declined dramatically from 13% in 1953 to 7.5% in 1964
