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From the left to right and top to bottom: An overcrowded train transferring refugees from Delhi to Pakistan during the Partition of India; A map showing the aid which will be allocated to European countries in 1948 under the Marshall Plan; President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress, in a speech which would become known as the Truman Doctrine, officially beginning the Cold ...
While "Free World" had its origins in the Cold War, the phrase is still used after the end of the Cold War and during the Global War on Terrorism. [6] Samuel P. Huntington said the term has been replaced by the concept of the international community, which, he argued, "has become the euphemistic collective noun (replacing "the Free World") to give global legitimacy to actions reflecting the ...
The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 3, to win their 11th World Series Title. October 14 – The United States Air Force test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound , the first time that this has been accomplished in level flight, or climbing.
The National Security Act of 1947 was enacted in the United States. 20-year-old student pilot Carl Lange, a United States Navy veteran of World War II, suffered a fatal skull fracture when he struck a power line while flying an Aeronca Champion aircraft and crashed in an Ohio hayfield. His instructor survived the crash.
10 February 1947: With the Paris Peace Treaty, Hungary loses all territories that were regained with the First and Second Vienna Awards and during World War II, thus it returns to the 1937 borders (except for three villages in the northwest given to Czechoslovakia). 1 January 2012: The Basic Law of Hungary comes into effect. 1000
It was the worst commercial aviation disaster in US history. Died: Georg von Trapp , 67, Austro-Hungarian Navy officer and patriarch of the Von Trapp family of The Sound of Music fame Circa May 30, 1947, a German V-2 sounding rocket fired from White Sands Proving Ground veered off course, crashed and exploded on top of a rocky knoll 3.5 miles ...
The Cold War from 1947 to 1948 is the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the incapacitation of the Allied Control Council in 1948. The Cold War emerged in Europe a few years after the successful US–USSR–UK coalition won World War II in Europe, and extended to 1989–1991.
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