From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

From the late 1940s to 1989, the extensive Czechoslovak Armed Forces ( about 200, 000 ) formed one of the pillars of the Warsaw Pact military alliance.

From 1950 to 1980, DDT was extensively used in agriculture — more than 40, 000 tonnes were used each year worldwide — and it has been estimated that a total of 1. 8 million tonnes have been produced globally since the 1940s.

From the 1940s through the Vietnam War, some notable gay servicemembers avoided discharges despite pre-screening efforts, and when personnel shortages occurred, homosexuals were allowed to serve.

From the 1940s to the late 1970s, much programming was done in assembly language ; higher level instructions meant greater programmer productivity, so an important advantage of microcode was the relative ease by which powerful machine instructions could be defined.

From the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, Trudeau was primarily based in Montreal and was seen by many as an intellectual.

From the 1830s until the 1940s, mechanical calculating machines such as adders and multipliers were built and improved, but they could not perform an " if / goto " and therefore are not true computers.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

From the Nazi espionage thrillers of the 1940s to the 007 films of the ' 60s and to the high-tech blockbusters of today, the spy film has always been popular with audiences worldwide.

From the 1940s to 1985, Calvin S. Hall collected more than 50, 000 dream reports at Western Reserve University.

From the late 1940s, King Rudahigwa, a Tutsi with democratic vision, abolished the " ubuhake " system and redistributed cattle and land.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the Navajo kept moving their villages closer and closer to Hopi land, causing the Hopi to raise the land issue with the U. S government.

From the 1940s on, Mao and Jiang quarreled frequently.

From the 1940s to the 1970s the Sydney Push, an intellectual subculture of authors and activists questioning of authority, including Germaine Greer, was active.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the state assumed control of burning that prevented uncontrolled fires.

From the 1940s to the 1980s, Western published several series of books for older children and young teenagers, initially under its Whitman line.

Although the review compared Fleming in unflattering terms to the crime fiction writer of the 1930s and 1940s, Peter Cheyney, it concluded that From Russia, with Love was " exciting enough of its kind.

From the early 1930s to the late 1940s, New York City's famous Apollo Theater in Harlem featured skits in which almost all black male performers wore the blackface makeup and huge white painted lips, despite protests that it was degrading from the NAACP.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.

From the early 1930s through the 1940s, several automobile designers and manufacturers were located in Richmond.

" From the 1940s the two main reasons for permanent and substantial European settlement in the area were Aboriginal welfare policy and the promotion of tourism at Uluru.

From the 1920s to the 1940s Frank Milner ( 1875 – 1944 ) turned Waitaki Boys ' High School into one of the most admired schools in the country through his old-fashioned values, inspiring leadership and broad outlook.

From the 1920s through the 1940s, Scottdale Manufacturing Company even supported a baseball team.

* From the 1940s until it was removed in the mid 1980s, Loreauville had a Tin Man style water tower which was located adjacent to the existing Loreauville Volunteer Fire Department Fire Station on Bridge Street.

From 1764 onwards, there was a gradual change from a slave-based society to one based on production for domestic consumption and export.

From Pyramid onwards, Tosh was replaced by Stuart Elliott of Cockney Rebel.

From Vulture Culture onwards, Richard Cottle played as a regular member on synthesizers and saxophone.

From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

From the 17th century onwards, " scandalous memoirs " by supposed libertines, serving a public taste for titillation, have been frequently published.

From about 1697 onwards ( La caduta del Decemviri ), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Giovanni Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera arias become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliance ( L ' Eraclea, 1700 ), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison.

From Emperor Claudius ( reigned AD 41 – 54 ) onwards, Varro's calculation ( see below ) superseded other contemporary calculations.

From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

From May 1943 onwards there was very close cooperation between the British and American military intelligence organisations.

From 1973 onwards Bubbles increasingly avoided credits for his artwork, typically working anonymously or occasionally adopting alternative pseudonyms.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

From the Hellenic system onwards, the policy rationale for requiring the payment of monetary compensation for wrongs committed has involved the avoidance of feuding between clans and families.

From the late 17th century onwards a whole body of literature known as the Han Kitab developed amongst the Hui Muslims of China who infused Islamic thought with Confucianism.

From the 1550s onwards, the use of gunpowder weapons solidified infantry's dominance of the battlefield and began to allow true mass armies to develop.

From 1981 and each year onwards information that corresponds to a population and housing census is retrieved from registers.

From 1851 onwards the census shows the stated age and relationship to the head of household for each individual.

From the mid-fourth century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of crossbows becomes more dense and varied: Arrow firing machines ( katapeltai ) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC.

From here onwards there are several sub branches.

From the mid-fourth century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of arrow-shooting machines becomes more dense and varied: Arrow firing machines ( katapaltai ) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC.

From the time of Deng Xiaoping onwards, there has been a drift of focus towards a Marxist-inspired, moderated by Conficianism, nationalist perspective, and consideration of China's contemporary international status became of paramount importance in historical studies.

From the 16th century onwards, evidence of cranks and connecting rods integrated into machine design becomes abundant in the technological treatises of the period: Agostino Ramelli's The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of 1588 alone depicts eighteen examples, a number that rises in the Theatrum Machinarum Novum by Georg Andreas Böckler to 45 different machines, one third of the total.

From the 1980s onwards, computers ( and their monitors ) have been used for both data processing and entertainment, while televisions have implemented some computer functionality.

From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.

From 1718 onwards, he lectured in chemistry in Amsterdam.