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Politics by region: stories to listen to | HearLore
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Politics by region
Western BlocOn the 5th of March 1946, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood in Fulton, Missouri to declare that an iron curtain had descended across the…
Three-world modelThe year 1947 marked the beginning of a global struggle between two superpowers. The United States and the Soviet Union stood as opposing forces after World…
Third WorldAlfred Sauvy published an article in the French magazine L'Observateur on the 14th of August 1952. He used the phrase third world to describe countries…
Second WorldIn 1961, a map of Europe showed political lines drawn in ink that would define the next three decades. The Second World emerged as one of three global…
First WorldIn the late 1940s, the United Nations introduced a new way to categorize nations based on their political alignment. This system emerged from the global…