Period 3333.2323 (1943–1961)

  • World hegemony.
  • Genocides.
  • Nuclear weapons.
  • Containment.
  • Informalism.

1. 1943–1948

11. 1943–1945

  • 9 July 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.
  • 19 July 1943 Allied bombing of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls.
  • 30 September 1943 Divino afflante Spiritu.
  • 20 November 1943 Battle of Tarawa.
  • 28 November 1943 Tehran Conference.
  • 1943 Jean Fautrier’s Head of a Hostage.
  • 17 January 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino.
  • 8 March 1944 Battle of Imphal.
  • 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord.
  • 22 June 1944 Operation Bagration.
  • 20 July 1944 20 July plot.
  • 25 July 1944 Operation Cobra.
  • 1 August 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
  • 19 August 1944 Liberation of Paris.
  • November 1944 Axis Rule in Occupied Europe by Raphael Lemkin. Coinage of “genocide”.
  • 4 February 1945 Yalta Conference.

12. 1945–1947

  • 25 April 1945 San Francisco Conference.
  • 26 June 1945 Charter of the United Nations.
  • 17 July 1945 Potsdam Conference.
  • 6 August 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  • 20 November 1945 Nuremberg trials.
  • 10 December 1945 The ENIAC is put to work for the first time.
  • 5 March 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech of Winston Churchill.
  • 24 March 1946 Unveiling of the Vespa. The first successful scooter.
  • 2 June 1946 Italian institutional referendum.
  • 14 December 1946 Outline Command Plan.

13. 1947–1948

  • 10 February 1947 Paris Peace Treaties.
  • 28 April 1947 Operation Vistula.
  • 14 August 1947 Partition of India.
  • 29 November 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
  • 22 December 1947 Constitution of the Italian Republic.
  • 30 January 1948 Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • 3 April 1948 Marshall Plan.
  • 14 May 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence.
  • 1948 Kinsey Reports.

2. 1948–1953

21. 1948–1950

  • 24 February 1949 Israel–Egypt Armistice Agreement. First of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.
  • 4 April 1949 North Atlantic Treaty.
  • 29 August 1949 RDS-1. First successful Soviet nuclear test.
  • 9 May 1950 Schuman Declaration.
  • 27 May 1950 1950 Wynder and Graham Study.
  • 25 June 1950 Korean War.
  • 6 July 1950 Treaty of Zgorzelec.
  • 12 August 1950 Humani generis.

22. 1950–1952

  • 6 October 1950 Battle of Chamdo.
  • 19 October 1950 Chinese intervention in the Korean War.
  • 1950 Launch of the Olivetti Lettera 22.
  • 18 April 1951 Treaty of Paris. Establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community.
  • 28 April 1951 Appointment of Mohammad Mosaddegh as Prime Minister of Iran.
  • 14 July 1951 José Froilán González wins the British Grand Prix with Ferrari. First win for Ferrari.
  • 8 September 1951 Security Treaty between the United States and Japan.

23. 1952–1953

  • 22 July 1952 Constitution of the Polish People’s Republic.
  • 23 July 1952 1952 Egyptian revolution.
  • 10 September 1952 Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • 27 February 1953 London Agreement on German External Debts.
  • 5 March 1953 Death of Stalin.

3. 1953–1961

31. 1953–1956

  • 26 July 1953 Cuban Revolution.
  • 27 July 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement.
  • 15 August 1953 Iranian coup d’état.
  • 19 February 1954 Transfer of Crimea in the Soviet Union.
  • 7 April 1954 “Domino theory” speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • 19 April 1954 Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham. Moral alarm about comic books.
  • 29 May 1954 Bilderberg meeting.
  • 1954 Rolex GMT Master. First watch with the time-zone hand.
  • 4 July 1954 Juan Manuel Fangio wins the French Grand Prix with Mercedes. Debut and first win for Mercedes.
  • 15 January 1955 Unveiling of the Lancia Aurelia B24.
  • 18 April 1955 Bandung Conference.
  • 9 May 1955 West Germany in the NATO.
  • 14 May 1955 Warsaw Pact.
  • 6 September 1955 Istanbul pogrom.
  • 6 October 1955 Unveiling of the Citroën DS.
  • 1955 Launch of Fanta Orange in Italy.
  • 1955 Marlboro Man.

32. 1956–1959

Decolonization.

  • 23 June 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
  • 29 June 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
  • 1956 Hundred Flowers Campaign.
  • 31 August 1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
  • October 1956 Showcase #4. First appearance of the new Flash.
  • 19 October 1956 Polish October.
  • 29 October 1956 Suez Crisis.
  • 7 February 1957 Ghana Independence Act 1957.
  • 25 March 1957 Treaty of Rome. Establishment of European Economic Community.
  • 12 May 1957 Car crash of Guidizzolo. End of open-road car races in Italy.
  • 2 July 1957 Unveiling of the Fiat Nuova 500.
  • 4 October 1957 Sputnik 1.
  • 1957 Omega Speedmaster.
  • 1958 Great Leap Forward.
  • 1958 Four Pests campaign.
  • 1958 Lucio Fontana’s Slashes.

33. 1959–1961

  • 10 March 1959 Tibetan uprising.
  • 13 September 1959 Luna 2. First spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon.
  • 1959 Great Chinese Famine.
  • 1959 Olivetti takes control of Underwood.
  • 5 July 1960 Congo Crisis.
  • 7 January 1961 Casablanca Group.
  • 15 March 1961 Unveiling of the Jaguar E-Type.
  • 12 April 1961 Vostok 1.
  • 8 May 1961 Monrovia Group.

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