Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupy Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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1951

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.