First general election in India
1951–1952 · Event
World's largest democratic exercise to date; Congress wins decisively.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1951
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)