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Revision note: World Wars, Decolonisation and the Cold War

  • WWI 1914–18: MAIN causes; Sarajevo trigger; Versailles 1919; League of Nations
  • Russian Revolution 1917 (Lenin); USSR 1922
  • Depression 1929; fascism (1922) and Nazism (1933); Munich 1938
  • WWII 1939–45; UN 1945; IMF/WB 1944; UDHR 1948
  • Decolonisation: Ghana 1957; 1960 Year of Africa; Dien Bien Phu 1954
  • Cold War: NATO 1949, Cuban crisis 1962, Berlin Wall 1961–89, USSR ends 1991
Revision card summarising World Wars, Decolonisation and the Cold War
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