Basis for the United Nations agreed upon by 5 charter members
Great Britain becomes “welfare state”
Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Great Britain gives India and Pakistan independence
Jews proclaim new state in Israel
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First Berlin blockade and Berlin airlift
China falls to the Communists; Republic of China established on Taiwan; United Nations begins; NATO forms; Konrad Adenauer becomes first chancellor or West Germany
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Korean War
Joseph Stalin dies
Warsaw Pact formed
Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet Union
European Common Market forms; Bill Haley and the Comets release first “Rock and Roll” hit
Berlin wall constructed
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Vietnam War
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads Civil Rights “March on Washington”
Palestinian Liberation Organization formed: Khrushchev removed as leader of Soviet Union; Gulf of Tonkin resolution escalates American involvement in Vietnam
Six Day War in Middle East
Soviets crush “Prague spring” in Czechoslovakia
Watergate scandal paralyzes US; OPEC oil embargo shakes western economies
Iran seizes US embassy in Tehran with hostages: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
Solidarity movement begins in Poland
Great Britain wins Falklands War
Collapse of communism begins in Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union begins to break apart; Germany is reunified
Communism ends in Soviet Union which becomes Russia again; First Persian Gulf War
European Union created
Terrorist attack on the US on 9/11; Coalition war on terrorists in Afghanistan