Here are your matches for the events shown, listed by year:
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1948</h2>
- Yugoslavia parted ways with the Soviet Union because of political differences.
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1956</h2>
- Workers in Poland won higher wages after an uprising.
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1961</h2>
- Military forces began construction of the Berlin Wall.
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1968</h2>
- The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia and reversed its economic reforms.
I'll provide a few more details on that last item, regarding Czechoslovakia. In January, 1968, the new leader in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, launched the "Prague Spring" (as it became known). He sought to give communism "a human face," as he termed it, introducing many political and economic reforms. By August, the USSR responded by sending in 600,000 troops, and again those Soviet tanks. The revolution was put down.
But the Soviet Union's grip in Eastern Europe weakened over the next two decades. By 1989, a number of Eastern European nations began to upend the communist governments that had held control in their countries. The Berlin Wall was torn down during that time also.
United States might not be able to save its ally, South Vietnam, from its communist aggressors.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowed President Johnson to send troops to Vietnam, thus waging a war without actually "declaring" it as war. Checks and balances keep the power divided and balanced among government branches; it is the duty of Congress to declare war, so President Johnson waging war without the declaration of war by Congress breaks this system.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense. This small pamphlet had a big effect on colonists and moved many Americans to support independence from Great Britain. Colonists were persuaded by the
<span>logic of Paine's arguments, which included that the Atlantic Ocean was too wide to allow Britain to rule America as well as an American government could, that it was foolish to think an island could rule a continent, and that the idea of Britain being America's "mother country" made Britain's actions all the worse because no mother would treat her children so badly.</span>
