1940's
It refers to the renovation of agricultural practices beginning in Mexico.
1940
Green Revolution
1940
Blitzkrieg - lighting war
Rotterdam was bombed almost to extinction. Both countries were occupied.
On side of Axis powers.
1940
Italy enters war
1940
Tripartite Pact
This pact of mutual alliance was signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
1940
North Korea vs. South Korea
Emerged a communist North Korea under Kim Il-Sung and a capitalist South Korea under Syngman Rhee.
By Lucio Fontana. The Spatial Movement attempted to effect a fusion between the world of art and the real world.
1940
Spatrial Art
1941
Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
Lead by German field Marshall Erwin Rommel.
1941
Russia signed a pact with Britain
They launched an Eastern front battle that would claim 20 million casualties.
1941
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked the US as a preliminary to taking British, French and Dutch colonies in South East Asia.
1942
Japanese take Singapore
They took it from the British with 60,000 prisoners.
1942
Battle of Stalingrad
The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943
Axis surrender N Africa
The British and American forces defeated the Axis forces.
1943
Liberation of Rome
The Allies liberated Rome from the Germans.
1944
Battle of the Bulge
Germans attacked Allies in Belgium with no success.
1945
The Beginning of the nuclear age
It killed more than 140,000 people within months. Many more later die from radiation-related illnesses, 65% of the afected were children.
1945
Death of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Describes an event in which entertainment, pure chance and total liberty were the decisive elements for making art.
1945
Hitler commits suicide
The German leader killed himself at his bombproof shelter.
1945
V.E. day
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
1945
Russia declares war on Japan
Russia declared war on Japan and invaded Japanese-ruled Manchuria.
1945
End of WWII
The Japanese unconditionally surrendered to the allies ending the second world war.
1945
ONU foundation
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Victory in Europe was celebrated.
1945
Iron Courtain
West led by US, easte led by Soviet Union
1945
Cobra
Group in Paris by John Pedersen, Alechinsky and Corneille. Characterised by an experimentalism, violent, chromatic brushwork.
1945
Churchill's Iron Courtain speech
Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech.
1947
British Raj ended
Period of British rule on the Indian subcontinent.
1947
Marshall plan
A declined programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country.
1948
Formation of West Germany
The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany.
Russia declares war on Japan
1945
1949
NATO formation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
To safeguard supply routes of Swedish ore and also to establish a Norwegian base from which to break the British naval blockade on Germany.
1940
Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
The British rescued people from Dunkirk territory.
1940
Operation Dynamo
1940
France signs armistice with Germany
1940
British rout Italians in N. Africa
1940
Abstract expressionism
First used by the critic Robert Coates.
To develop the first nuclear weapon.
1941
Manhattan Project established in US
1941
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler attacks Russia, breaking the treaty signed in 1939.
1941
The US lent arms to the USSR
1941
Britain and US declare war on Japan
1942
Battle of Stalingrad
The Russians won their first victory against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.
They assumed control of French Morocco and Algeria.
1942
Allies take Frecnh territory
1943
Italy surrenders
The Alies arrived troguh Sicili and made the Italian surrender and joined them, therefore Germany took control of their troops.
1944
Paris Liberated
The French capital of Paris was liberated from the Germans.
1944
Bretton Woods system
Reuinion to decide of the economic post-war future of the world. The worl bank was stablished, it bases its reserve currency on gold and US dollar. Soviet Union didn't sign the agreement.
Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin and decided to devide Germany in 4 zones and Berlin in 4 sectors.
1945
Yalta Conference
1945
Russians reach Berlin
After them came the US forces.
1945
German forces surrender
Hitler’s successor, Admiral Donitz, offerred an unconditional surrender to the allies.
"Little boy" on Hiroshima
1945
1945
"Fat man" over Nagasaki
An estimated 74,000 people die by the end of 1945.
1945
Vietnam Independence
Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic.
Marked the end of WW2 and the beggining of the Cold War. The Soviet union had occupied Europe.
1945
Yalta Conference
1945
Brut
The french artist jean dubuffet to describe all those works that had been painted by those who whether by their own choice or not.
1945
German forces surrender
Sets up a commission to deal with the problem of the atomic discovery.
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Russia vs US for power.
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Beginning of Cold War
1945
Russians reach Berlin
President Truman (US) promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover.
1947
Fronte Nuovo delle Ar
A group of communists in its moyority created this trend.
Russia cut all road and rail links to that sector, which meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation
1948
Berlin Blockade
1949
Soviet Union atomic bomb
They explode a nuclear weapon code-named “First Lightning” in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1949
Federal Republic of Germany
US, France and Britain joined their German territories.