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Cold War & Post-War

1,945 CE – 1,991 CE

Superpower rivalry, decolonisation, space race.

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Mahatma Gandhi

1,869 CE – 1,948 CE

Leader of Independence

Winston Churchill

1,874 CE – 1,965 CE

British Prime Minister · War Leader · Author

Joseph Stalin

1,878 CE – 1,953 CE

General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party · Dictator 1924–1953

Albert Einstein

1,879 CE – 1,955 CE

Physicist

Pablo Picasso

1,881 CE – 1,973 CE

Painter · Sculptor · Co-Founder of Cubism

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1,882 CE – 1,945 CE

32nd US President · Four-term Wartime Leader

Eleanor Roosevelt

1,884 CE – 1,962 CE

First Lady of the United States · UN Delegate · Drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Niels Bohr

1,885 CE – 1,962 CE

Physicist · Architect of Quantum Theory

Adolf Hitler

1,889 CE – 1,945 CE

Dictator of Nazi Germany · Architect of the Holocaust

B.R. Ambedkar

1,891 CE – 1,956 CE

Architect of the Indian Constitution · Dalit Leader

Mao Zedong

1,893 CE – 1,976 CE

Leader

Walt Disney

1,901 CE – 1,966 CE

Animator · Studio Founder · Theme-Park Visionary

Key events

1,946 CE

United Nations Founded

A new attempt at global governance.

1,947 CE

India & Pakistan Independence

The end of the British Raj.

1,949 CE

People's Republic of China

Mao declares the PRC.

1969 CE

Apollo 11 Moon landing

Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July 1969, during the years covered by China’s Cultural Revolution. Simultaneous events can belong to very different regional stories.

1,989 CE

Berlin Wall Falls

The Cold War ends.

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Period1,945 CE – 1,991 CE

Events and overlapping lifetimes are paginated below.

ScaleModern

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