Denmark 1945-1949 Denmark 1969-1990






Denmark 1949-1969



Denmark's economy profited from the MARSHALL PLAN (1948ff). The country in 1949 became founding member of NATO. In 1960, Denmark together with the United Kingdom, Ireland, Austria, Sweden and Finland founded EFTA, a free trade organisation without a political programme.
In 1953 the constitution was changed, the Landsting abolished, a unicameral system introduced. A NATIONAL PENSION SCHEME was passed in 1956, a SICKNESS COMPENSATION SCHEME in 1960, DISABLEMENT INSURANCE introduced in 1965, unemployment benefits raised in 1970. Denmark became a WELFARE STATE.
In the 1950es and 1960es, Denmark's economy boomed, factories like LEGO gaining a reputation worldwide, as did Danish dairy products and furniture.
When the UN Security Council called the member nations to support invaded South Korea, Denmark dispatched hospital ship JUTLANDIA, which served in Korean waters.
Denmark liberalized its censorship regulations; pornographic magazines (in the early 1960es still prohibited in the nations of central Europe) became a much-smuggled article.





EXTERNAL
FILES 		Denmark in the International Community, 1945-1972, in : History of Denmark, from Dan. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Developing Welfare State, in : History of Denmark, from Dan. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Denmark, in : Kenneth Janda, Political Parties : A Cross-National Survey
DOCUMENTS Historical Population Statistics : Denmark, from Population Statistics at Univ. Utrecht
World Statesmen : Denmark, by Ben Cahoon
Denmark's Constitution of 1953, full text, in English and Danish
Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951, from Avalon Project
North Atlantic Treaty; April 4, 1949, from Avalon Project at Yale Law School
A Danish celebration of the Marshall Plan (1951), from Library of Congress
Danish banknotes, from Ron Wise's World Paper Money
REFERENCE Knud J.V. Jespersen, A History of Denmark, Basingstoke : Palgrave MacMillan 2004, KMLA Lib.Sign. 948.9 J58h
Chapter 20 : Scandinavia - The Outer Bastion, pp.273-286 in : John Gunther, Inside Europe Today, NY : Harper & Bros. 1961 [G]
Article Denmark, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1950 pp.223-224, 1951 pp.226-227, 1952 pp.226-227, 1953 p.219, 1954 p.222, 1955 p.271, 1956 pp.206-207, 1957 pp.266-267, 1958 pp.206-207, 1959 p.203, 1960 pp.204-205, 1961 p.212, 1962 pp.204-205, 1963 pp.317-318, 1964 pp.308-309, 1965 pp.293-294, 1966 pp.236-237, 1967 pp.278-279, 1968 pp.280-281, 1969 pp.270-272 [G]
Article : Denmark, in : Americana Annual 1957 pp.225-226, 1961 pp.214-215, 1962 pp.216-217, 1963 pp.202-203, 1964 pp.201-202, 1965 pp.223-224, 1967 pp.238-239, 1968 pp.226-227, 1969 p.242, 1970 pp.243-244 [G]
Article : Denmark, in : Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Encyclopedia Year Book 1952 pp.129-130, 1961 pp.92-93 [G]


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