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Economic impact Demographic Impact Creation of United Nations Coming to terms with the Holocaust
1945 Nuremburg Trials 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1949 Genocide made a Crime
Economic impact Demographic Impact Creation of United Nations Coming to terms with the Holocaust
1945 Nuremburg Trials 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1949 Genocide made a Crime
Impossible to maintain after WWII French decolonization
Indochina North Africa
Great Britain India Creation of Pakistan
1952 and 1953: Hydrogen bombs (US and USSR)
1955: US B-52 bombers 1950s: ICBMS
US in Turkey USSR in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
1989 Gorbachev visited Beijing, sparking protests in China
Declines to intervene in Soviet Bloc countries when they demand freedoms Poland Hungary Germany Czechoslovakia Romania
Economic distress 1990 announces leap into free markets Attempted right-wing coup averted by
Boris Yeltsin Gorbachev’s power broken USSR legally dissolved 1 January 1992
History of pan-European idea Search for economic partnerships
Jean Monnet and Paul-Henri Spaak 1947 Benelux countries form customs
union 1951 European Coal and Steel
Community 1957 Treaty of Rome 1959 Creation of EFTA
1963 British membership to EEC blocked by France
1973 Britain, Ireland, Denmark join EEC 1981 Greece becomes member 1986 Spain and Portugal join 2004 former Soviet Bloc states join