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.

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 the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, " by far the most significant developments in the design and construction of acoustic guitars " were made by the Ovation Guitar Company.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

From the 1980s to the present, Berkeley has seen rising housing costs, especially since the mid-1990s.

From the time of his original formulation until the end of the 1980s cladistics remained a minority approach to both phylogenetics and taxonomy.

From the beginning of Communist rule in 1949, until the 1980s, when China was in the early years of economic reform, the focus was largely on peasant life, as interpreted via the officially sanctioned Marxist theory of class struggle.

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 the early 1980s the DFLP was seen as the most pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese of the PLO member organisations.

From 1969 until the late 1980s, Hee Haw was produced by Yongestreet Productions, named after Yonge Street, a major thoroughfare in Toronto.

From 1975 through the 1980s, illegal occupations of unused land increased once again.

From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers focused around critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum and editor Peter Kravitz.

From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios.

From the early 1980s, a civil disobedience movement encouraged refusal of the fingerprinting that accompanied registration every five years.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, overall real economic growth has been called a " miracle ": a 10 % average in the 1960s, a 5 % average in the 1970s and a 4 % average in the 1980s.

From the time of her death, Jadwiga was venerated widely in Poland as a saint, though she was only beatified by the church in the 1980s.

From the 1980s onwards, however, an academic reaction set in, especially in France.

From early 1980s the All Union Scientific Research Institute for Applied Computerized Systems ( VNIIPAS ) was working to implement data connections over the X. 25 telephone protocol.

From the mid-1970s and in the 1980s, general-purpose mini-computers served as routers.

From the 1980s, teleprinters were replaced by computers running teleprinter emulation software.

From the 1980s, teleprinters were replaced by computers running teleprinter emulation software.

From the late 1980s a new school of linguistic relativity scholars have examined the effects of differences in linguistic categorization on cognition, finding broad support for weak versions of the hypothesis in experimental contexts.

From the 1980s forward the Hoover Institution itself evolved into a conservative think tank, functioning independently from the library and archive.

From the late 1980s to 2000, the Chargers wore white at home during some preseason games and dark for regular season games.

From the late 1980s through the 1990s, consumer-grade personal computers became powerful enough to display various media.