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India and Pakistan became independence. Pakistan became its own nation on August 14, and India on August 15.
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David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. All of the Islamic countries voted against partition, and the Palestinians rejected it outright because they argued that the UN did not have the right to partitiona country.
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The Soviet Union cuts off all traffic and water to West Berlin. American and the British officials fly in supplies for 11 months.
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12 nations, Including the U.S. and Canada, were in the NATO. Defensive alliance formed because of fears of the Soviet aggression.
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An alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations in response to West Germany joining the NATO. A few countries remained non-aligned.
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Egypt seized control of the Suez Canal. British made an agreement with France and Israel to retake the canal.
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The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first unmanned satellite, into space in 1957. It was used as an intercontinental ballistic missle (ICBM).
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Israelis struck airfields in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria because they were convinced that the Arabs were about to attack them.Israel defeated the Arab states in what became known as the Six-Day War.
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Egyption president Anwar Sadat planned a joint Arab attack on the Israelis on the date of Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish holidays.The Arabs recaptured some of theterritory lost in 1967.
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Hungary allows vacationing East Germans to travel to Austria, so they travel to West Germany. East Germany closes its borders, and protests erupt. This results into the collapse of the Communist party.
