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Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received the royal assent and became two countrys
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Was the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post World War2. Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
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The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. The Launch of Sputnik showed the United States that the USSR has ICBM and they will use them.
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A CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro and the attack failed
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SALT Talks was a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty that the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile when they found out .
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Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third President of Egypt and was Assasinated by fundamentalist army officers.
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Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, Chinese troops violently retook the square in Beijing where pro-democracy protesters had set up camp for weeks. Lots were killed.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic. People started to take a stand by climbing and the wall.
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The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister, was the culmination of Israeli right-wing dissent over the Oslo peace process.
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