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The Abadan Crisis
Iran nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1951 and the West arranged a coup d'etat
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The Greek Civil War 1946-1949, as fascist and communist fought for control of the country
The United Nations
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The Jordan and Egypt Defence Pact
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South Africa leaves the Commonwealth
South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth in 1961 in defence of apartheid
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President Pinochet's path to power and the torture and repression that kept him there
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In 1971 Bangladesh emerges from East Pakistan after a bloody civil war
