independence. Britain was a strong anti-Soviet factor in the Cold War and helped found NATO in 1949. Many historians describe this era as the "post-war consensus"...

Party, led by wartime Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee, won the 1945 post-war general election in an unexpected landslide and formed their first ever...

of British politics since 1945, see: Post-war Britain (1945–1979) Political history of the United Kingdom (1979–present) While coverage of British social...

the United Kingdom during World War II, Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979), 1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934...

of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979), Political...

of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979), 1950s...

period of time after World War II, which ended in 1945. A post-war period can become an interwar period or interbellum, when a war between the same parties...

major political parties in post-war Britain shared a consensus supporting view, from the end of World War II in 1945 to the late-1970s. It ended during...

This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic...

1971 decoupling of the US dollar from gold Post-war consensus – Period in British political history, 1945 to 1970s Spanish miracle – Economic boom in...

Chris Cook. Post-War Britain: A Political History (1979) Tomlinson, Jim. Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy: The Attlee Years, 1945–1951 (2002)...

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive...

US strike wave of 1945–1946 or great strike wave of 1946 were a series of massive post-war labor strikes after World War II from 1945 to 1946 in the United...

Japanese forces surrendered to the Allies on 15 August 1945. In the War in Vietnam (1945–1946), British forces temporarily occupied the South with the objective...

John Oxborrow, Interwar Britain : a social and economic history (1976) pp. 67–73. Peter Dewey, War and progress: Britain 1914–1945 (1997) 224–32 Diane B...

Russia began to make a 'cold war' on Britain and the British Empire." The first use of the term to describe the specific post-war geopolitical confrontation...

Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War 1939-1945 (Oxford UP, 2010). Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Army in World War II...

before its reserves were exhausted. Britain had placed 55% of its total labour force into war production. In spring 1945, the Labour Party withdrew from the...

Post-war immigration to Australia deals with migration to Australia in the decades immediately following World War II, and in particular refers to the...

War: 1939–1945". All raid times are CET; Britain was on double summer time in early 1945, which was the same time as CET. During the Second World War...

War: Defeat in the West 1943–1945 (Luftwaffe at War, Vol. 6). London: Greenhill Books, 1998. ISBN 978-1-85367-318-4. Smith, Peter. Luftwaffe at War:...

The history of Germany from 1945 to 1990 encompasses the period following World War II. The period began with the Berlin Declaration, marking the abolition...

campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was...

Battle of Britain (2005) excerpt online Hastings, Max. Bomber Command (1979) Hansen, Randall. Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942–1945 (2009)...

War in the post-World War II era are listed chronologically by the starting dates. July 21 – August 8, 1945 — Yetaishan Campaign August 13–19, 1945 —...

The Cold War from 1979 to 1985 was a late phase of the Cold War marked by a sharp increase in hostility between the Soviet Union and the West. It arose...

it a “people’s war,” which caught on and signified the popular demand for planning and an expanded welfare state. By 1945, the Post-war consensus emerged...

States declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially...

the Soviet Union, European countries and the United States. In World War I, Britain, France and Russia, who had formed a Triple Entente, comprised the major...