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1 giorno fa · History. Aftermath. Impact. See also. Notes. Citations. References. External links. World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
- Allied victory
1 giorno fa · The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music , with country and western .
- 1950s and 1960s, US and UK
- Electric guitar, bass guitar, drums
4 giorni fa · The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the " Fifties " or the " '50s ") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.
5 giorni fa · Among the studio’s best-known films of the 1940s and ’50s were such classics as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). During this period Warner Brothers also expanded into television with the premiere of the western series Cheyenne in 1955.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 giorni fa · Human rights. Saturday 18 May marks the 80th anniversary of one of history’s least known but most traumatic genocides. Early that morning in 1944, Soviet internal security troops spread throughout the Crimean peninsula. They surrounded Crimean Tatar homes and villages, rounding up the entire population of nearly 200,000 at gunpoint.
5 giorni fa · Many modern notions of identity have their origins in the specific events of the 1950s and 1960s. As a consequence the structure and method of the social sciences have been transformed in light of their importance in the construction, explanation and experience of social identities in Britain.
3 giorni fa · rhythm and blues, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, when he was editing the charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names then in use (Harlem Hit Parade, Sepia, Race) to be ...
