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| 1946 April 18 |
| | | The discredited League of Nations is finally disbanded | |
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| 1946 October 1 |
| | | Twelve of the defendants at Nuremberg are sentenced to death by hanging | |
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| 1946 October 15 |
| | | Hermann Goering, sentenced to death at Nuremberg, kills himself with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he is due to be hanged | |
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| 1946 December |
| | | John D. Rockefeller Jr. gives land along the East River in New York for a permanent United Nations headquarters | |
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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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| 1948 June 26 |
| | | The Western powrers respond to the Soviet blockade by launching the Berlin airlift, flying in necessary provisions of every kind | |
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| 1948 December 23 |
| | | Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged | |
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| 1949 May 12 |
| | | The Soviet Union lifts the blockade on Berlin and the airlift ends, after providing for nearly a year a lifeline to the city | |
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| 1949 May 25 |
| | | The Federal Republic of Germany is formed from the British, French and US zones of occupation | |
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| 1949 May 30 |
| | | The USSR grants nominal independence to east Germany as the newly established German Democratic Republic | |
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