Vision And Views

An Overview of Current Life Events

By Dr. Purushothaman Kollam

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Major World Events [14]




The Republic of China was established on 1st October 1949
Ireland got independence from Great Britain (17-05-1949)
NATO came in to existence (04-04-1949)

The Apartheid was established in South Africa (29-03-1949)

Indonesia got independence from Netherlands on 27th December 1948
   
OAS (Organization of American States) was started at Bogota, Comobia (30-04-1948)

Philippines got independence from United State of America on 4th July 1946   

The origin of UN (United Nations) was on 24th October 1945
   
Japan surrendered on 15th August 1945
   
Both India & Pakistan got independence from Britain on 15th August 1945

On 9th August 1945, US droped atomic bombs at Nagasaki, Japan
   
   
On 6th  August 1945, US droped atomic bombs at Hiroshima, Japan
   
By the suicide of Hitler on 30th Aprial 1945, Germany surrendered

In Czechoslovakia the Communist party took over power (23-02-1945)

In Yalta, Stalin, Roosevolt & Churchil started their first meeting (04-02-1945)

IMF(International Monetary Fund) and World Bank were established (12-07-1944)

The Allies invaded Normandy on 6th June 1944
   
Mussolini of Italy was deposed on 25th July 1943
   
The US fleet was attacked by surprise by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor (07-12-1941)   
   
Hitler invaded Russia on 22nd June 1941
   
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia were annexed to Soviet Union (12-05-1940)

Winston Churchil was the Prime Minister of Great Britain for two terms (1940-1945) & (1945-1950)

France, Netherlands, Denmark and Luxemberg was invaded by Hitler in 1940

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