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1964 BCE
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act was passed. -
1957 BCE
Treaty of Rome
Creation of the European Economic Community. Its main objectives were the free movement of people, goods, services, and capitals by suppressing the customs duties among the member countries. It was signed by West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It also involved the creation of European Atomic Energy Community for the development and research of the nuclear energy with pacific goals a
s well as creating a common market of nuclear fuels. -
1951 BCE
Treaty of Paris
It involved the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC) It was signed by France, Western Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It created a free-trade area for coal and steel in the signing countries. -
1950 BCE
Korea was divited (1950-1953)
Before the Second World War Korea was a colony of J
apan. Japan was defeated and Korea was
divided into North and South Korea. The North was communist and the South was under the influence of the USA and had an anti-communist dictatorship.
Truman looked for peace and a cease-fire was agreed on in 1953 -
1949 BCE
Two new states were formed.
The German Federal Republic (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic. The frontier between Eastern and Western Europe had been drawn in Berlin. -
1949 BCE
Formation of NATO
The Western Powers formed NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) against the communist threat. -
1948 BCE
Benelux Customs Union
It was an agreement that was signed by
Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in order to remove customs and to promote free movement of capital, goods, and workers. -
1947 BCE
Truman Doctrine
Was a U.S. policy that promised to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism. -
Cold War (1947-1991)
The Cold War was a state of political and military
tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars supported by the two sides -
Warsaw pact
Was formed byThe Eastern Bloc -
Vietnam war (1959-1975)
Vietnam was partitioned into the communist North and the democratic South. In South Vietnam there was a group called the Vietcong that wanted the South and the
communist North to join. President Johnson was determined to keep south Vietnam communist free, so he increased troop numbers from 23.000 in 1964 to 500.000 in 1967. He began a
bombing campaign of North Vietnam.
The Americans were defeated for several reasons -
Cuban missile crisis
In 1956, a rebel named Fidel Castro attempted to overthrow the government, but was defeated and forced into exile..
The world was on the brink of nuclear war, but on t
he last minute Khrushchev agreed to remove
the missiles from Cuba only if the US promised not
to place missiles in Turkey near the Soviet
border. After this a telephone hot-line was set up between
the Kremlin and the White House -
The end of Cold War
In 1985, the USSR began to change its policies. Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and broughtsome changes:
• Disarmament treaty was signed so the USA and the USSR agreed to remove medium-rangenuclear missiles from Europe within 3 years.
• Gorbachev announced the immediate reduction of the weapons stockpile and the number of troops in the soviet armed forces. The Cold War was ending and the USSR began to reform.
