state power and the execution of the rosenbergs

Internationally, three pivotal events marked the postwar era: (i) the SU detonated its first atomic bomb on September 23, 1949; (ii) a week later, on October 1st, Mao’s communist forces took power in China, finally victorious in a civil war against the Kuomintang-led government that began in 1927;..

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During Cold War, China had become entangled in series of regional hot confrontations, including the plan of counterattack by Kuomintang Taiwan, Korean War, Sino-Indian War, repeated incursions by U.S battleships and aircrafts into Chinese territorial waters of China, and threats..

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