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States and territories established in 1949

  • East GermanyOn the 7th of October 1949, the German Democratic Republic officially came into existence within the Soviet occupation zone.
  • West BerlinThe Potsdam Agreement of 1945 established a four-power occupation zone for Germany, dividing the capital city of Berlin into sectors controlled by the United…
  • Hungarian People's RepublicThe Red Army entered Hungary in 1945 and seized control of the country's political affairs shortly after World War II ended.
  • LaosIn 2009, archaeologists recovered an anatomically modern human skull from the Tam Pa Ling Cave in the Annamite Mountains of northern Laos.
  • GermanyAncient humans were present in the territory of modern Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The first non-modern human fossil known as the Neanderthal was…
  • State of VietnamOn the 2nd of July 1949, the State of Vietnam officially proclaimed its existence within the French Union. This new entity emerged from the Halong Bay…
  • ChinaIn 221 BCE, King Zheng of Qin conquered six rival states to unify China under the first emperor. This ruler enacted legalist reforms that standardized…
  • West GermanyWest Germany emerged from the ashes of World War II on the 23rd of May 1949. The Federal Republic of Germany formed as a political entity during the Allied…