Disneyland opens
1955 · Event
Walt Disney's California park reinvents the amusement park as an immersive 'theme' world, a template copied worldwide.
On these timelines: Master, USA, Arts and Thoughts
Around 1955
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)