 |
Cease-fire in
Palestine (Jan. 7). |
|
Truman
proposes Point
Four Program to help world's less developed areas
(Jan. 20). |
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Israel signs
armistice with Egypt (Feb. 24). |
|
Start of
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) - treaty signed by 12 nations
(April 4). |
|
Federal Republic of
Germany (West Germany) established (May 23). |
|
First successful
Soviet atomic test (July 14). |
|
Communist
People's Republic of
China formally proclaimed by Chairman
Mao Zedong
(Oct. 1). |
|
German Democratic
Republic (East Germany) established under Soviet rule (Oct. 7).
|
|
South Africa
institutionalizes
apartheid |
