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Year of unbroken tension and world upheaval in 1948
A broad survey of 1948 chronicles the birth of Israel on May 14, the fall of Czechoslovakia under Communist pressure, Gandhi's assassination, Bernadotte's murder, and Berlin blockade as the East West divide deepened. The year also saw Benes resign, the Berlin airlift begin, and Iran’s and Europe’s postwar realignments shaping a tense geopolitical landscape.
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Israel
J. C. Oestreicher
INS
NEW York
England
Far East
India
Balkans
Europe
America
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Elizabeth
Jan Masaryk
Russia
Eduard Benes
Mohandes Karamchad Gandhi
Birla House
New Delhi
United Nations
Folke Bernadotte F
Sweden
Jerusalem
Mahatma Gandhi
Pakistan
Indian Assembly
Gandhi
Romania
Michael
Tomarry
Switzerland
Benes
Klement Gottwald
Dr. Benes
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk
Czechoslovak Republic
Foreign Office
Prague
Gottwald
Masaryk
Adolf Hitler
Brussels
Great Britain
France
Benelux
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Viscount Montgomery
U. S
Western Europe
81St Congress
Berlin
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan
Colombia
Bogota
South
Central America
VII. N
Palestine
Republic of Israel
Funcoe
Holy Land
Republic
Jordan Valley
Gaza
Negev
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Eastwest
Finland
Soviet Russia
Italy
Christian Democratic
Alcide de Gasperi
Chamber of Deputies
Palmiro Togliatti
Joseph Stalin
Alexander A. Zhdanov
Central
Tee
Communist Party
Zhdanov
Stalin
Juliana
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Wilhelmina
Bernadotte
George V
Stern Gang
U. N
U. N. General Assembly
Paris
Security Council
Manchuria
China
Korea