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1946
• Following abortive mediation by the Americans, Chinese Nationalists and Communists fail to keep the peace, and civil war breaks out that lasts until 1949. • On 24 February, Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina. • On 5 March at Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill coins the phrase 'Iron Curtain' in a speech attacking the Soviet Union. • On 27 April, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins its work in Tokyo. On 12 November 1948, former prime minister Hideki Tojo and six others are sentenced to death. • On 22 July, Zionist terrorists bomb the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 and injuring 45. • On 3 June, Italy becomes a republic. • On 23 November, the bombardment by French troops of Haiphong in north- east Vietnam, killing about 20,000, starts the war of independence in Indochina (ends 1954). • The first digital computer is demonstrated at the University of Pennsylvania. • Dr Benjamin Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, a book that has a profound effect on the upbringing of the products of the postwar baby boom. |
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