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Revision note: The Cold War, Its End and Political Philosophies

  • Cold War 1947–91: Iron Curtain speech 1946; Truman Doctrine 1947; Marshall Plan 1948; NATO 1949; Warsaw Pact 1955
  • Crises: Berlin Blockade 1948–49, Korea 1950–53, Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 1962, Vietnam, Afghanistan 1979–89
  • End: Gorbachev (glasnost, perestroika), Berlin Wall falls 9 Nov 1989, Germany reunited 3 Oct 1990, USSR dissolved 26 Dec 1991
  • NAM Belgrade 1961: Nehru, Nasser, Tito, Sukarno, Nkrumah
  • Capitalism (Smith, Keynes, Hayek); socialism (utopian, Marxian, Fabian/democratic); communism (Marxism–Leninism); Gandhian trusteeship, Sarvodaya
  • India: Avadi 1955 "socialistic pattern"; "socialist" in Preamble by 42nd Amendment 1976
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