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| 1946 |
| | | The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh | |
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| 1946 March 5 |
| | | Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, expresses the harsh truth that an iron curtain has descended across Europe | |
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| 1947 |
| | | An election campaign in Poland, marked by violence and the use of terror, brings a Communist landslide | |
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| 1947 |
| | | President Truman defines postwar US policy by pledging support for any nation defending itself against Communism | |
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| 1948 |
| | | An armed coup, led by Klement Gottwald, imposes single-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Marshall, the US secretary of state, launches a plan to distribute aid to sixteen European countries | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Tito accepts Marshall Aid from the USA, setting Yugoslavia on the path of non-alignment in the Cold War | |
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| 1948 |
| | | US lawyer Alger Hiss is denounced, controversially, as a Soviet spy | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Kim Il Sung becomes prime minister of North Korea on the withdrawal of the Soviet occupying force | |
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| 1948 June 24 |
| | | The Soviet Union imposes a blockade on Berlin by denying the other powers access through the land corridor to the city | |
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