1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlier decades like women's rights, civil rights, imperialism, and war were relatively suppressed or neglected during this time as a returning world from the brink hoped to see a more con ...

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1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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A boat is an informal (although once widely used) term for the massive cars produced by the Detroit manufacturers during the 1950s and onward. The age of the boats came to a rather abrupt end in the early 1970s, when the first gas crisis hit and driving a needlessly large car became impractical financially. The term (possibly) derives from the fact that the vehicles in question were indeed the size of small watercraft. Another possible explanation is the tendancy of these cars to 'float' on ...

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The Colombo Plan began in 1951, and is a regional organisation focused on social development. It is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It provides economic aid to parts of South and Southeast Asia. It was established May 1950 after a meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Nations in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), coming into full operation July 1951. Colombo Plan - Present members. Afghanistan Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Fiji Islands< ...

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Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR or Piatiletkai (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. The plans were developed by the Gosplan based on the general guidelines of the Communist Party for economic development. Fulfilling the plan became the watchword of Soviet bureaucracy. (See< ...

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• Five-Year Plan - The Second Plan 1932-1937
• Five-Year Plan - The Third Plan 1938-1941
• Five-Year Plan - The Fourth and Fifth Plans 1946-1950 and 1951-1955

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Albert B. Grossman (born 1926 Chicago; died 1986) is best known as the manager of Bob Dylan. Grossman was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. He recieved an economics degree from Roosevelt University. He worked for the Chicago Housing Authority, leaving, possibly after being dismissed for misconduct, to go into the club business in the late 1950's. He also handled, at one time or another, the careers of Peter, Paul and Mary; Odetta; Bob Gibson; Gordon Lightfoot; The Band; Ian and Sylvia; and Janis Joplin. Before going int ...

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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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African socialism is the belief in the doctrine of sharing economic resources in a "traditional" African way, as compared to classical socialism. Many African politicians of the 1950s and 1960s professed a belief in African socialism, although interpretations varied considerably. After the independence of most African countries during the 1960s, newly formed African regimes could not easily claim a great victory over the Europeans if they continued to use the same system that those oppressors had designed, namely capitalism, si ...

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1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. See 1920s Berlin. 1920s - Events and trends. Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both d ...

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The CANDU reactor is a pressurized-heavy water,(PHWR) natural uranium (i.e. unenriched) power reactor designed in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) and the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (now known as Ontario Power Generation), as well as several private industry participants. The acronym "CANDU", a registered trademark of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, stands for "CANada Deuterium Uranium". This is a reference to its deuterium oxide (heavy water) moderator and its u ...

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During the period 1945-1975, Keynesian economic theory guided politicians throughout Western Europe and this was particularly influential in Belgium. After the war, the government cancelled Belgium's debts. It was during this period that the well-known Belgian highways were built. At night, their street lights make them easily seen from space. In this sphere of economics, World War II marks a turning point. Because Flanders had been widely devastated during the war and had been largely agricultural since the Belgian uprising, it benef ...

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History of Belgium - The royal question. See main article Léopold III of Belgium A dispute over King Léopold III's conduct during World War II caused civil uprisings, and eventually led to his abdication in 1951 following a state-wide referendum. In Flanders they voted in favor of his return, in Wallonia against (especially the provinces of Liège and Hainaut; Namur and Luxembourg being split 50/50). Although he narrowly won the referendum, the militant socialist movement in Liège, H ...

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In August 1830, stirred by a performance of Auber's La Muette de Portici at the Brussels opera house La Monnaie (Dutch: De Munt), the Belgian Revolution broke out, and the country wrested its independence from the Dutch, aided by French intellectuals and French armed forces. The real political forces behind this were the Catholic clergy, which was against the protestant Dutch king, William I, and the equally strong liberals, who opposed the royal authoritarianism, and the fact that the Belgians were not represented propo ...

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List of Prime Ministers of Belgium List of Belgian monarchs History of Belgium - Laicity and catholicism. In the 19th century, the Belgian politics is a bipartisan system very deep influenced by the conflict between the catholics and the laics. Liberalism in Belgium Universite Libre de Bruxelles Katholieke Universiteit Leuven < ...

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History of Belgium - World War I. The neutrality of Belgium was violated in 1914 when Germany invaded Belgium as part of the Schlieffen Plan. The Germans were stopped by the allied at the frontline along the Yser, the battle of the Yser. The Belgian population suffered very much under the German rule. Flanders saw some of the greatest losses of life of the First World War including the first and second battles of Ypres and the Somme. Due to the hundreds of thousands of casualties, the poppies that s ...

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History of Belgium, History of Belgium - Before independence, History of Belgium - Prehistory, History of Belgium - Antiquity, History of Belgium - Pre-romanesque period, History of Belgium - Romanesque period, History of Belgium - Gothic period, History of Belgium - Burgundian Netherlands, History of Belgium - The Spanish Netherlands, History of Belgium - Austrian Netherlands, History of Belgium - French period, History of Belgium - United Kingdom of the Netherlands, History of Belgium - Independence, History of Belgium - From the independence to WWI, History of Belgium - Laicity and catholicism, History of Belgium - Industrial revolution, History of Belgium - The first school war 1879-1884, History of Belgium - The rise of the socialist party and of the trade unions, History of Belgium - The Congolese colony, History of Belgium - Historicism and Art Nouveau, History of Belgium - From WWI to WWII, History of Belgium - World War I, History of Belgium - Between the wars, History of Belgium - World War II, History of Belgium - After WWII, History of Belgium - The royal question, History of Belgium - Post-war economic growth, History of Belgium - European and international integration, History of Belgium - The second school war 1950-1959, History of Belgium - The Congo crisis 1960-1965, History of Belgium - The linguistic wars, History of Belgium - The rise of the federal state, History of Belgium - The fall of the Belgian economic miracle, History of Belgium - The Marc Dutroux Scandal, History of Belgium - The rise of the Green parties, History of Belgium - The rainbow government 1999-2003, History of Belgium - Reference

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History of Belgium - Prehistory. Around 400,000 BC Neandertals lived on the edge of the Meuse river, near the village of Spy. From 30,000 BC on the inhabitants were Homo sapiens. Neolithic vestiges exist at Spiennes where there was a silex mine. Image:Belgicaromana.gif The first signs of the Bronze age date 1750 BC. From 500 BC Celtic tribes settled and traded with the Mediterranean world. From 150 BC the first coins were in use. The earliest named inhabitants of Belgium were the Belgae (after whom the modern Belgium is named). ...

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Japan-United States relations - Post-war occupation period. Main article: Occupied Japan Japan-United States relations - 1950s: After the occupation. In the years after World War II, Japan's relations with the United States were placed on an equal footing for the first time at the end of the occupation by the Allied forces in April 1952. This equality, the legal basis of which was laid down in the peace treaty signed by forty-eight Allied nations and Japan, was initially ...

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Japan-United States relations - Trade volume. The United States has been Japan's largest economic partner, taking 31.5 percent of its exports, supplying 22.3 percent of its imports, and accounting for 45.9 percent of its direct investment abroad in 1990. Japan's imports from the United States included both raw materials and manufactured goods. United States agricultural products were a leading import in 1990 (US$8.5 billion as measured by United States export statistics), made up of meat (US$1.5 billion), ...

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