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| Cold war developments included the continuation of hostilities in the Korean War. In the United States, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for espionage; executed in 1953. | 1 |
| The IRANIAN OIL NATIONALIZATION CRISIS (1951–53). Mohammed Mossadegh became premier of Iran in April 1951, and the Iranian government nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The International Court of Justice ruled (1952) that it did not have jurisdiction because this was an internal matter. The matter was not resolved until the shah, Mohammad Reza, was restored to full power by a military coup aided by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1953. | 2 |
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| 1952 |
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| Cold war developments included the announcements that Great Britain had produced an atomic bomb and that the United States had tested hydrogen bombs. The Soviet Union vetoed admission of Japan and three Indochinese states to UN. Cold war vetoes, particularly by the Soviets, frequently marked UN debates. | 3 |
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| EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION brought to power a group of young military officers advocating radical reforms; the most important of such revolutions in the Middle East. | 4 |
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| The Mau Mau revolt in Kenya began with attacks on white settlers, and a state of emergency was declared by the British. | 5 |
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