Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Judt, 2005)
1947 · Resource
Tony Judt's monumental survey of post-WWII Europe — winner of multiple major awards.
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Around 1947
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)