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The Shock of the New | The Year 1947: Fractures and Tectonic Shifts

08.03.2023 - By CBCPlay

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The Partition of India creates the largest mass migration in human history. The newly-created United Nations votes to partition British Palestine. The Cold War divides the world into opposing camps, and empires collapse and retreat. This is the final episode in our series, The Shock of the New, exploring how change happens. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 4, 2022.

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