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| 1950 | 1951 The Mossadeq government of Iran nationalizes it's oil industry. Britain and the US impose sanctions on Iran. Ireland is declared an independent republic. |
| 1952 Poland adopts a constitution similar to Russia's. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is crowned. West Berlin reports taking in 16,000 refugees from East in August. . In Matyas Rakosi, the Hungarian Communist party's general secretary, becomes prime minister. Viet Minh guerrilla forces gain control of the countryside, in Vietnam. |
1953 Stalin dies. The French establish a garrison camp at Dien Bien Phu (in Vietnam). |
| 1954 Iran signs an oil agreement with companies from Britain, US, France and Netherlands. The British sign an agreement to withdraw their troops from Egypt. The Americans paid about 78% of the French war effort in Indo-China. The French are defeated in Dien Bien Phu. In August there is a conference at Geneva about Korea and Vietnam, with nine-powers meeting. |
1955 The Warsaw pact is signed. Indonesian President Sukarno organised the Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, starting the Non-Aliance Movement between third world countries that did not wish to align to either side of the Cold War. |
| 1956 Nikita Khroshchev, head of the USSR Communist party, takes control of the government. After anti-Russian riots, Polish communist Wladislaw Gomulka became the head of the government of Poland. The Hungarian revolution is suppressed by Soviet troops. |
1957 Russia launches the first artificial satallite, Sputnik. |
| 1958 | 1959 China and Russia quarrel over communist policies toward the West. |
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