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| 1947 |
| March 12th |
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President
Truman made his 'Us and them' speech in Congress, which was
known as the 'Truman Doctrine'. |
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| April 11th |
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Jackie
Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black
American baseball player to play in the Major Leagues. |
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| June 27th |
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East
and West clashed in Paris as the divides grew in Europe, especially
over the American and British idea of the Marshall Plan. |
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| July 3rd |
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Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov left the Paris conference, and returned
to Moscow. He accused the Western powers of dividing Europe
with its Marshall Plan. |
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| July 12th |
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A
new Paris conference began and discussed the Marshall Plan,
without the Soviet Union. |
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| August 15th |
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India
and Pakistan gained independence and partition status. |
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| September
22nd |
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The
Marshall Plan was agreed and implemented in Paris. The Plan
brought aid from the United States, to war torn Europe. |
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| October 4th |
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Charles
E. "Chuck" Yeager passed Mach 1 in the Bell XS-1,
named 'Glamorous Glennis', to be the first human to break the
sound barrier. |
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| November. |
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Work
began on the South Pacific islands on Eintewok, 200 miles west
of Bikini Atoll, in preparation for nuclear testing under the
codename 'Operation Sandstone'. |
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Captured
German rocket scientists conducted V2 rocket tests for the US
Army at White Sands, New Mexico, USA. |
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The
Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) was founded in the United
States. |
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