ÿþ<html> <head> <title>WHKMLA : Timelines - World History, since 1950 </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2006 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../whchapters.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on March 20th 2006 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline World History since 1950 </B></font> <BR> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"><i> http://www.zum.de/whkmla/timelines/wh/tlsince1950.html </i></font> </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1945 <BR> 1945-1947 <BR> 1946-1949 <BR> 1947 <BR> 1947-1948 <BR> 1948 <BR> 1950-1953 <BR> 1954 <BR><BR> 1954-1962 <BR> 1956 <BR> 1956 <BR> 1956-1965 <BR> 1959 <BR> 1960 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1961 <BR> 1962 <BR> 1964 <BR> 1965 <BR> 1967 <BR> 1968 <BR> 1969 <BR> 1969 <BR> 1971 <BR> 1971 <BR> 1973 <BR> 1973 <BR> 1976-1983 <BR> 1979 <BR> 1981 <BR> 1985-1991 <BR> 1989 <BR> 1991 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> End of WW II; Yalta, Potsdam Conferences <BR> Erection of the Iron Curtain <BR> Chinese Civil War <BR> India, Pakistan independent <BR> Berlin Blockade and Airlift <BR> South Africa introduced Apartheid legislation <BR> Korean War <BR> France defeated in Indochina; North, South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos <BR> independent <BR> Algerian struggle for independence <BR> Suez Crisis <BR> USSR : Destalinization <BR> Decolonization <BR> Fidel Castro took power in Cuba <BR> Bulk of African nations released into independence <BR> Berlin Wall constructed <BR> Bandung Conference; Non-Aligned Movement founded <BR> First man in space (Yuri Gagarin, USSR) <BR> Cuban Missile Crisis <BR> France, PRC nuclear powers <BR> Second Indo-Pakistani War <BR> Six Days War (Israel vs. Arabs) <BR> Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed by first signatories <BR> Begin of Ostpolitik (Detente) <BR> First man on the moon (Neil Armstrong, USA) <BR> Begin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy (Detente) <BR> Third Indo-Pakistani War <BR> Oil Crisis <BR> CIA-supported coup in Chile <BR> Dirty War in Argentina <BR> Soviet invasion of Afghanistan <BR> End of Oil Crisis <BR> Gorbachev President of USSR <BR> Tienanmen Massacre; Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe <BR> Disintegration of USSR <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> REFERENCE : <BR><BR> John Haywood, <A HREF = "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140513280/">The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings</A>, London : Penguins 1995 [G] <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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