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YearEvent
1945Potsdam meeting (July); UNO founded (24 October, 51 members)
1946Long Telegram (22 February); Churchill's Fulton speech (March)
1947Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan (June); Cominform (September); CIA
1948Brussels Treaty (March); OEEC (April); Berlin Blockade (June); Israel (14 May)
1949Molotov Plan; Council of Europe; FRG (August) and GDR (October); Soviet atomic bomb
1950Schuman Plan (9 May); Korean War begins (25 June)
1951ECSC treaty at Paris (18 April); ANZUS
1952Term Third World coined; Greece and Turkey join NATO
1953Term non-alignment coined; Korean armistice (July)
1954SEATO; KGB
1955Baghdad Pact; Bandung Conference; Warsaw Pact; West Germany joins NATO
1956Suez Crisis; Hungarian Crisis
1960EFTA
1961First NAM summit, Belgrade; OECD
1962Cuban missile crisis
1964PLO formed
1967Six Day War
1971People's Republic of China in the Security Council
1973Britain, Ireland, Denmark join EEC
1977 / 1979SEATO disbanded / CENTO disbanded
1987Single European Act
1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
1991Maastricht Treaty; USSR disintegrates (8 December)

Persons

PersonRemembered for
George KennanLong Telegram, containment
George OrwellCoined the term Cold War
John Foster DullesBrinkmanship
Alfred SauvyCoined Third World
V. K. Krishna MenonCoined non-alignment
Trygve LieFirst UN Secretary-General
Robert SchumanSchuman Plan
GorbachevPerestroika and glasnost
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