Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
The Allies occupy Iran to open a supply route to the USSR
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On 25 August 1941 British and Soviet troops entered Iran, whose shah had refused to expel German experts; three weeks later Reza Shah abdicated in favour of his son. The "Persian Corridor" then carried a large share of Lend-Lease aid to the USSR.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 23 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 2 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 6 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 7 years later
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 8 years later
Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 13 years earlier
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 8 years earlier
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 5 years earlier
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — same year
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 12 years earlier
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 5 years earlier
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — same year
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 1 year later
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 4 years later
Africa
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 6 years earlier
- 1948 Apartheid begins in South Africa — 7 years later
- 1952 Egyptian revolution of 1952 — 11 years later
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — 15 years later
- 1958 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart — 17 years later
Asia
- 1942 Fall of Singapore — 1 year later
- 1943 Bengal famine — 2 years later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 4 years later
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 12 years later
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — 25 years later
Americas
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 12 years earlier
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 11 years earlier
- 1933–1939 New Deal — 8 years earlier
- 1945 ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer — 4 years later
- 1947 Invention of the transistor — 6 years later
Oceania
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 5 years earlier
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — same year
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 1 year later
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 13 years later
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Nikola Tesla (aged 85)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 72)
- Winston Churchill (aged 67)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 63)
- Albert Einstein (aged 62)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 60)
- Adolf Hitler (aged 52)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 52)
- Mao Zedong (aged 48)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 23)