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In The News...

●    Cease-fire in Palestine (Jan. 7).

●    Truman proposes Point Four Program to help world's less developed areas (Jan. 20).

●    Israel signs armistice with Egypt (Feb. 24).

●    Start of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - treaty signed by 12 nations (April 4).

●    Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established (May 23).

●    First successful Soviet atomic test (July 14).

●    Communist People's Republic of China formally proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong (Oct. 1).

●    German Democratic Republic (East Germany) established under Soviet rule (Oct. 7).

●    South Africa institutionalizes apartheid

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