1947 AD
- March 12 – The Cold War begins: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed, to help stem the spread of Communism.
1950s
- Rock music took its first chords in the 1950s.
- The price of oil was low after the Second World War, and until the oil crisis of 1973.
- Increased Leisure among Teenager created youth Subculture, such as Mods
- I USA möjliggjorde den ökade bilismen och det låga bensinpriset utbredningen av fler villaförorter.
- In the United States, the increase in motoring and the low price of gasoline enabled the spread of more residential suburbs.
1950 AD
- June 25 – The Korean War begins
1952
- July 23 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
1953 AD
- July 26 – Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.
- July 27 – The Korean War ends
1954 AD
- November 1 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule
1956 AD
- October 23 – The Hungarian Revolution breaks out against the pro-Soviet government, originating as a student demonstration in Budapest. Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact.
- October 29 – November 7 – Suez Crisis
1957 AD
- May 27 – Governments in many countries invested a lot of money in Infrastructure. Here is the Redevelopment of Norrmalm and the construction of the Stockholm Metro in Sweden.
- October 4 – Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
1958 AD
1959 AD
- January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
1960 AD
- March 21 – Sharpeville massacre
- May 22 – Valdivia earthquake
- July 5 – Congo Crisis begins
1961 AD
- August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 people to die at the Wall.
1962 AD
1963 AD
- August 28 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.
- November 22 – Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded at 12:30 CST. Upon Kennedy’s death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president of the United States. A few hours later, President Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One, as Kennedy’s body is flown back to Washington, D.C. Stores and businesses shut down for the next four days, in tribute.
1964 AD
- Februaby 9 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and thus have their breakthrough in the United States.
1965 AD
- Mrach 8
- Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to complete a Spacewalk.
- Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in Da Nang, South Vietnam, becoming
- November 25 – Congo Crisis ends
1967 AD
- June 5-10 – Six-Day War
- September 3 – At 05:00, Sweden switches to right-hand traffic after several years of preparation and road safety propaganda. The preparations took four years, and cost around SEK 600 million. The traffic diversion is monitored by 8,000 police and conscripts, and during the transition night 20,000 people work to adapt 350,000 road traffic signs for right-hand traffic
1968 AD
- January 5– August 21 – “Prague Spring
1969 AD
- August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
