Apartheid laws codified
1950 · Event
South Africa enacts the racial segregation system known as apartheid.
On these timelines: Master, The Fall of Apartheid, Sub-Saharan Africa
Around 1950
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)