These sixty dates are essential and constitute a base which, of course, must be deepened, completed, and put in relation with a study of the historical facts. Thanks to these dates, you will have the main reference points, and you will be better able to identify and relate the historical knowledge that you need to master during your learning.
Good luck to all and good revision with this timeline.
→ History worksheets: The World, Europe and France from 1945 to the present day
1945 (August): American atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945 (June): creation of the United Nations
1945 (November): MRP-PCF-SFIO tripartite government around de Gaulle in France
1946: resignation of de Gaulle against the “party” regime and new constitution: IV Republic
1947–1989: cold war
1947 (March): Truman’s doctrine and Marshall Plan
1947 (April): creation of the Rassemblement du Peuple Français : RPF
1947: UN outline for the partition of Palestine
1948: birth of Israel and 1st Arab-Israeli war
1949: proclamation of the People’s Republic of China
1950–1953: Korean War
1951: creation of the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community)
1955–1975: Vietnam War
1955: Bandung Conference
1956: Suez crisis
1957 (March): establishment of the EEC (European Economic Community) and EURATOM (European Atomic Energy Community)
1958: de Gaulle becomes President of the Council and is granted full powers
1958 (September): Referendum on the constitution giving birth to the Fifth Republic (79% yes)
1958–1959: The Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine in China
1961: putsch of the generals in Algiers
1962 (March 18): the Evian agreements marked the end of the Algerian war
1962: Cuban crisis
1963: “Ich bin ein Berliner” — Kennedy
1966–1969: the cultural revolution in China
1967 :6 day war
1968: movements, strikes and demonstrations known as May 68
1969 (June): Georges Pompidou president of France
1973: coup d’état in Chile
1973: Yom Kippur War and 1st oil shock
The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York
before the attack of September 11, 2001,
1974: Valéry Giscard d’Estaing wins the presidential elections by a narrow margin
1975–1990: Civil war in Lebanon
1976–1979: death of Mao Zedong; Deng Xiao Ping begins the transformation of China.
1979: Islamic revolution in Iran
1980–1988: Iran-Iraq war
1981: François Mitterrand was elected President of the Republic in France
1981: the assassination of Anwar Al-Sadat
1986: first cohabitation in France with Jacques Chirac as prime minister
1987: 1st Intifada
1988: François Mitterrand was re-elected President of the Republic in France
1989 (June 4): crushing of the student revolt in Tien Amen
1989 (November 9): fall of the Berlin Wall
1991: Gulf War
1992: referendum on the Maastricht Treaty (51.04% yes)
1991 (December 25): resignation of Gorbachev
1992: intervention in Somalia
1993: Washington’s agreements between Israelis and Palestinians
1995: Jacques Chirac is elected President of the Republic in France
1995: American intervention and end of the war in Bosnia
2000:2nd Intifada
2001: attacks in the United States against the World Trade Center towers and war in Afghanistan
2002: Jacques Chirac was re-elected president against Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round
2003:1st Chinese taikonaut
2003: American intervention in Iraq, Dominique de Villepin opposes an intervention at the UN Security Council
2005: the referendum on the European constitution fails in France (54.68% of no)
2007: Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of the French Republic
2008 (August): Olympic Games in Beijing
2008: the election of Barack Obama
2010: Shanghai World Expo
2011: the “Arab Spring
2011 (May 2): the death of Osama bin Laden
2012: the election of François Hollande
2014: summary of the 2014 news
2015: summary of the 2015 news
summary of the 2016 news
2016: the election of Donald Trump
2017: the election of Emmanuel Macron
2017: summary of 2017 news
summary of 2018 news
2019 news summary
2020: COVID becomes pandemic
2022 (February): Russia invades Ukraine
See also:
→ Dates in World History
→ Chronology of the construction of the European Union
Good morning. Very good article but didn’t the Vietnam War take place from 1955 to 1975? thank you to enlighten me