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The Great War. USA: Public Broadcasting System. "WWI Timeline". National Wwi Museum and Memorial. USA: National World War I Museum. "World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial.
1953 was a common year ... Swedish politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sweden, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1862) October 13 – Millard Mitchell, American ...
1953 1959 Cuban Revolution: 26th of July Movement: Cuba: 1953 1953 1953 Iranian coup d'état: House of Pahlavi United States [a] United Kingdom [a] Government of Iran: 1954 1954 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état: Paraguayan Army: Government of Paraguay: 1954 1954 Kengir uprising: Soviet Union: Kengir resistance 1954 1954 Annexation of Dadra and ...
Eisenhower took office in January 1953, with the Korean War in a stalemate. Three and a half years prior, the Soviet Union had successfully detonated the atomic bomb named RDS-1, and appeared to reach approximate military parity with the United States. [1]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
January 31, 1953: Unprecedented floods affect the Netherlands and UK. North Sea flood of 1953: Flooding broke out in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, continuing until February 1 and eventually resulting in the deaths of more than 2000 people. [47] [48]
Following the Second World War, West Germany took up payments. The 1953 London Agreement on German External Debts resulted in an agreement to pay 50 percent of the remaining balance. The final payment was made on 3 October 2010, settling German loan debts in regard to reparations.
We anticipated a world of peace and cooperation. The calculated pressures of aggressive communism have forced us, instead, to live in a world of turmoil. [3] Eisenhower also made mention of the ongoing Korean War: "In this general discussion of our foreign policy, I must make special mention of the war in Korea. This war is, for Americans, the ...