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1948 June 26
 
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The Western powrers respond to the Soviet blockade by launching the Berlin airlift, flying in necessary provisions of every kind     
1948 December 23
 
    
Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged       
1949  May 12
 
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The Soviet Union lifts the blockade on Berlin and the airlift ends, after providing for nearly a year a lifeline to the city       
1949  May 25
 
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The Federal Republic of Germany is formed from the British, French and US zones of occupation       
1949  May 30
 
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The USSR grants nominal independence to east Germany as the newly established German Democratic Republic      
1953
 
    
Imre Nagy becomes prime minister of Hungary, but is driven out of office two years later by hard-line Communists because of his relative liberalism       
1955
 
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Milbourne House, seriously damaged in World War II, is restored and divided into two separate dwellings See in Google maps   
1955
 
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Austria achieves a much delayed return to nationhood after the Soviet Union finally agrees to withdraw from the country      
1961
 
   
Two days after landing in the Bay of Pigs, 114 Cuban exiles are dead and about 1300 have been captured   See in Google maps   
1965
 
   
After a summer of border skirmishes in Pakistan, an Indian advance towards Lahore initiates full-scale war between the two countries