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Cold War and DecolonizationTimeline of significance of Cold War Contest:1945-United Nations1946-World Bank1947-Truman Doctrine1948-1952-Marshall Plan1948-1949-Berlin Airlift1949-NATO1949-Soviet atomic test1950-1953-Korean War1952-Hydrogen test1950's-Brinkmanship:"Smoking ruin" vs. "We Will bury you"1954-DienBienPhu / Start of Vietnam War1955-Warsaw Pact1957-Sputnik1961-Berlin Wall constructed1961-Bay of Pigs CIA fail1962-Cuban Missile Crisis1965-Gulf of Tonkin Incident1968-Tet Offensive1968-Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty1969-Man on the Moon1970-EC (European Community)1972-1975-Helsinki Accords1975-Fall of Saigon?Decolonization:1946-Phillipines-USA1947-Pakistan-India War over Kashmir1948-Burma (Myanmar)-British1949-1965-Sukarno in Indonesia-Dutch1951-1954-CIA ousts Arbenz in Guatemala for United Fruit Co. interests1952-MauMau Revolt in Kenya1955-Bandung Conference of Third World "non-aligned" nations, hosted by Sukarno in Indonesia1957-Ghana-British1959-1990's-Castro/Che Guevara in Cuba1960-French West African colonies1962-Algeria-France1964-Kenya-British1971-Bangladesh1975-Angola/Mozambique-Portugal1980-Rhodesia->Zimbabwe-BritishChaotic reigns'60s-90's-Seko in Congo / South Africa Mandela vs. apartheid 50's-90's?Communism in China:1949-People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong1958-Great Leap Forward FAIL, death of 30million1966-1971-Cultural Revolution, policed by Red Guards, death of 1/2million, 3 mill purged1971-Nixon visits China, who joins UN?Middle East:?1947-UN approves Israel in Palestine lands, 1948-Israel independent, setting Arabs against them for good.1950's-Iraq, Egypt, Jordan free but still econ. dependent1960-OPEC1967-6 Day War-Israel strikes against Egypt/Syria to prevent attack1973-US brokers cease-fire between Israel and Egypt1974-Oil Crisis, as OPEC quadruples prices?Global Trends:1960's-Green Revolution1970-Earth Day ................
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