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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.
Agent Orange
78.8%
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..
Cuban Missile Crisis
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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
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Churchill's famous speech in 1946 said this had descended 'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic'.
Iron Curtain
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Conference held 17th July-
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Time of industrial unrest in the UK over the severe winter of 1978-
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Winter of Discontent
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Alogan adopted by the Khmer Rouge to denote the start of their 4-
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Year Zero
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Proposal advanced by French foreign minister on 9th May 1950 which formed the European Coal and Steel Community.
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