| Description | Event |
|---|
| Notorious herbicide used by the US military machine in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s; its active ingredient 245-T was also used in weedkillers and caused devastation. | |
| Following the US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castro reuested Soviet atomic weaponry to improve their defences. The resulting tension between US and the USSR is known as.. | |
| Churchill's famous speech in 1946 said this had descended 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic'. | |
| Plan to assist the economic recovery of post-war Europe, proposed by US Secretary of State in June 1947. The scheme offered European countries US funding if they cooperated with ea | |
| Conference held 17th July-2nd August 1945 between USSR, UK and USA to decide treatment of defeated Germany. | |
| Proposal advanced by French foreign minister on 9th May 1950 which formed the European Coal and Steel Community. | |
| Time of industrial unrest in the UK over the severe winter of 1978-9 | |
| Alogan adopted by the Khmer Rouge to denote the start of their 4-year period of rule in Cambodia in April 1975 | |
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