Korean War
An armistice fixes a divided peninsula
In June 1950 North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel. UN forces led by the US fought for the South, Chinese volunteers backed by the USSR for the North. The 1953 armistice at Panmunjom fixed the division of Korea that endures today.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1939–1945 World War II — 11 years earlier
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations — 5 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 3 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 2 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 1 year earlier
Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 22 years earlier
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 17 years earlier
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 14 years earlier
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 9 years earlier
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 3 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 9 years earlier
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — 8 years earlier
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — 5 years earlier
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 7 years later
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 11 years later
Middle East
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 18 years earlier
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 15 years earlier
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — 6 years later
- 1958 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart — 8 years later
- 1960 Year of Africa — 10 years later
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 13 years later
Americas
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 21 years earlier
- 1945 ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer — 5 years earlier
- 1947 Invention of the transistor — 3 years earlier
- 1969 Moon landing — 19 years later
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — 20 years later
Oceania
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 14 years earlier
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 9 years earlier
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 8 years earlier
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 4 years later
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Winston Churchill (aged 76)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 72)
- Albert Einstein (aged 71)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 69)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 61)
- Mao Zedong (aged 57)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 32)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (aged 21)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 20)
- Yuri Gagarin (aged 16)