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| Cold war developments included the initiation of the Marshall Plan and the direct commitment by the United States to oppose Soviet expansion in Greece and Turkey. | 1 |
| The Dead Sea Scrolls, manuscripts dating back two thousand years, were discovered in Khirbat Qumran in Jordan. These proved to be of major importance for the understanding of Jewish and Christian history at that time. | 2 |
| The Kon-tiki expedition led by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl provided that it had been possible for ancient peoples to travel by raft from South America to the Pacific Islands. | 3 |
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| Nov |
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| The UN General Assembly approved a plan for the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. | 4 |
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