Algerian War of Independence
A fight for independence topples France's Fourth Republic
On 1 November 1954 the National Liberation Front launched an armed struggle against French rule. The brutal war divided French society and brought down the Fourth Republic. Under the 1962 Évian Accords Algeria became independent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1939–1945 World War II — 15 years earlier
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations — 9 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 7 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 6 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 5 years earlier
Europe
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 21 years earlier
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 18 years earlier
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 13 years earlier
- 1952 Great Smog of London — 2 years earlier
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 1 year earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 13 years earlier
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 12 years earlier
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 9 years earlier
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 3 years later
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 22 years earlier
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 6 years earlier
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 25 years later
Asia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 9 years earlier
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 1 year earlier
- 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu — same year
- 1955–1975 Vietnam War — 1 year later
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 21 years later
Americas
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 25 years earlier
- 1955 Salk polio vaccine declared safe — 1 year later
- 1959 Cuban Revolution — 5 years later
- 1969 Moon landing — 15 years later
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 16 years later
Oceania
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 18 years earlier
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 13 years earlier
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 12 years earlier
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — same year
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Winston Churchill (aged 80)
- Albert Einstein (aged 75)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 73)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 65)
- Mao Zedong (aged 61)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 36)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (aged 25)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 24)
- Yuri Gagarin (aged 20)
- Harry S. Truman (aged 70)