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    The Western Bloc is an informal, collective term for countries that were officially allied with the United States during the Cold War of 1947–1991. While...
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    capitalist Western Bloc. The Eastern Bloc was often called the "Second World", whereas the term "First World" referred to the Western Bloc and "Third...
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  • of Western Bloc intelligence agents, military personnel, scientists, politicians, diplomats, and other prominent people who defected to Eastern Bloc or...
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  • up bloc, blocs, Bloc, or błoć in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bloc may refer to: Political bloc, a coalition of political parties Trade bloc, a type...
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  • Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc, each characterised by distinct political and economical systems. Prior to the Roman conquest, a large part of Western Europe...
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    Warsaw Pact (redirect from Warsaw Bloc)
    counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Western Bloc. There was no direct military confrontation between the two organizations;...
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    The Western Desert cultural bloc (also capitalised, abbreviated to WDCB, or just Western Desert) is a cultural region in central Australia covering about...
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    similarly grouped together those countries that were aligned with the Western Bloc of the United States. It included communist states that were originally...
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  • War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies...
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    States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War...
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  • beginning of the game until 1986, the Eastern Bloc countries are stuck with tense relations with Western Europe, North America, and countries in the British...
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    War, as it grouped together those countries that were aligned with the Western Bloc of the United States. This grouping was directly opposed to the Second...
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    towards the Western world, and publicly rejected the Soviet Union's policy of peaceful coexistence between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc. In addition...
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    Benin, Libya and Tanzania, that condemned Israel, was not put to a vote. Western nations spoke in support of the raid. West Germany called the raid "an...
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    the Cold War (c. 1947–1991) between the Western allies (primarily the US and Western Europe) and the Eastern Bloc (primarily the Soviet Union and allied...
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    the Post Stalinist Soviet Union § The Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Bloc Bonnell, Victoria E., and Gregory Freidin. "Televorot: The role of television...
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    cartridge of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, analogous to the 9×19mm Parabellum in NATO and Western Bloc military use. During the Second World War...
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    Berlin Wall (category Eastern Bloc)
    physically the Iron Curtain that separated the Western Bloc and Soviet satellite states of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Before the Wall's erection...
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    influence. In 1952, by joining NATO, Greece clearly became part of the Western Bloc of the Cold War. But in Greek society, the deep divide between the leftist...
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  • Military History of the FARC–EP Northwestern Bloc of the FARC–EP Southern Bloc of the FARC–EP Western Bloc of the FARC–EP "Belligerence". farcep.org. Archived...
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    "Moss", the A-50 first flew in 1978. Its existence was revealed to the Western Bloc in 1978 by Adolf Tolkachev. It entered service in 1985, with about 40...
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    War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies...
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    During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc. West Germany was formed...
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    and Pacific Ocean, were identified as the Western Bloc. Three of five veto nations were part of this bloc with significant hold in global politics and...
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    WEU implemented the Modified Brussels Treaty. During the Cold War, the Western Bloc included the WEU member-states, plus the United States and Canada, as...
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    The first three represented the Western Bloc and the capitalist system, and the Soviet Union led the Eastern Bloc and expanded its communist system...
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    Reza Pahlavi's rule became more autocratic and firmly aligned with the Western Bloc during the Cold War in the aftermath of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état...
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  • represented a third position between the capitalism of the Western Bloc and the communism of the Eastern Bloc. The term "Third Position" was coined in Europe and...
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  • dominated by the Cold War (1947–1991) between the Western Bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union. The confrontation spurred...
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    position throughout the Western world, particularly with the spread of Christian democracy across Europe. It aligned with the Western bloc during the Cold War...
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