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| 1950 |
| | | A witch hunt begins when Senator Joseph McCarthy says he knows the names of 205 Communists in the US State Department | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Chinese troops move into Tibet, meeting little resistance | |
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| 1950 |
| | | Julius Rosenberg is arrested on suspicion of being a Soviet spy, and his wife Ethel is arrested a few weeks later | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The British government bans hereditary ruler Seretse Khama from Bechuanaland because he has married a white woman | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Twenty-Second Amendment to the US Constitution prevents anyone being elected for more than two presidential terms | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Jacopo Arbenz, newly elected president of Guatemala, enrages the USA by expropriating the land of the United Fruit Company | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The new Iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, passes the Oil Nationalization Act, seizing Britain's assets in the region | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escape to the Soviet Union just ahead of their detection and arrest | |
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| 1951 |
| | | An agreement is signed by which a joint Tibetan-Chinese authority will nominally govern Tibet | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Batllistas, followers in Uruguay of José Batlle, attempt an unusual experiment in the reform of government | |
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