A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century
recant. The West went ahead. Ministers of sixteen European nations met in September 1947 together with the three military govern ...
From the Kremlin’s point of view towards the end of 1947, things were not going well. The West was disputing Soviet dominance in ...
the Western plans for Germany and the commu- nist coup in Czechoslovakia. From Moscow’s point of view the Czech coup could not h ...
from entering their own ministries. The army was confined to barracks and did not interfere. The show of force proved sufficient ...
Berlin, divided into four occupation zones, had, at the end of the Second World War, been placed under separate four-power contr ...
resent the wishes of the whole German people, whether living in the East or the West. The Russians could do little but respond i ...
could have turned the Cold War into a hot con- flict. That it did not do so was due not to luck but to careful calculation and r ...
would then assist the country under attack ‘by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with other parties, such action as ...
question whether conscription might be allowed when the government thought it essential had resulted in a 72 per cent ‘no’ vote ...
1 Part VIII THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIA, 1945–55 ...
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In 1945 to all appearances the Western nations once more dominated the world, including all of Asia. They had between them at th ...
independence would be attained by agreement with the West was not fulfilled except on the Indian continent and later in Malaya. ...
to root out the Huk militia in central Luzon Island. The Huk responded with an all-out armed rebellion in 1948, their supporters ...
Japanese, and for a good reason: the Japanese, during the early years of occupation from 1942 to 1943, oppressed the Chinese mor ...
aristocratic Tunku Abdul Rahman, and the moder- ate Chinese under Tan Cheng Lock formed an Alliance Party calling for independen ...
thoughts of true independence. They left the tra- ditional social structure and simply sought to work through it as the Dutch ha ...
forced into a series of compromises and trials of strength. The British government was glad to take advantage of a truce in Nove ...
1929 by Ho Chi-minh. In the social and political conditions of the 1930s its potential following was large, and it adopted the t ...
Japanese prevailed on him to head an ‘independ- ent’ Vietnam in March 1945. Ho Chi-minh saw that Bao Dai’s royal standing in the ...
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