Meanwhile…

Construction of post-war high-rises and apartment districts

ca. 1945-1970

Decolonization and the end of the European colonial empires

1945-1975

Municipal expansion and modernization of Cuijk

1960s-1970s

Het Nieuwe Bouwen and the reconstruction after the bombing of Rotterdam

1940-1953

Cuban Revolution

1959

The Hague Convention as a forerunner

1954-05-14

Population and industrial growth in Cuijk

1950s

The Great Leap Forward

1958-1961

Just-In-Time Manufacturing and Global Supply Chains

around 1975

Development of the Salk polio vaccine

1955

Mariner 2 reaches Venus

1962-12-14

Introduction of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL 'Gullwing'

1954-02-06

Conquering the skies: commercial aviation

rond 1958

1956 Melbourne Olympics

1956-11-22

introduction of the Pinyin romanization system in China

1958

Structuralism and the Amsterdam Orphanage

circa 1960

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

Death in Princeton

1955-04-18

Abebe Bikila wins the marathon in Rome barefoot

1960-09-10

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw