World Events

Posted in 1946

  • Renaissance architecture in NurembergFirst session of the new United Nations General Assembly is held.
  • Nazi war criminals are sentenced to execution or imprisonment following the Nuremberg war trials and judgements.
  • Civil War in Indochina led by Ho Chi Minh against the French, lasts to 1954. Communist Viet Minh attack French forces in Vietnam.
  • Italy becomes a republic and later grants women the vote.