United Nations founded
1945 · Event
International body to prevent future world wars; successor to the League of Nations, which is formally dissolved in 1946.
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Around 1945
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)