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 the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

From 1896 until 1910 John H. Whipple was manager of Western Union at the Center in the drugstore he purchased from Clark Wait.

From June, 1942, until December, 1945, Pfaff served in the Army Air Corps.

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

From the late 1930s until the postwar period appeared a string of monographs and edited volumes that cemented the paradigm of British Social Anthropology ( BSA ).

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe.

From the time of St Augustine until the 16th century, the Archbishops of Canterbury were in full communion with the See of Rome and thus received the pallium.

From the early Middle Ages until after the Second Vatican Council the sacrament was administered, within the Latin Church, only when death was approaching and, in practice, bodily recovery was not ordinarily looked for, giving rise, as mentioned above to the name " Extreme Unction " ( i. e. final anointing ).

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

From the extinction in 1254 of the Hohenstaufen dynasty until 1415, the area was ruled by the Habsburgs, and many castles from that time still stand ( examples include Habsburg, Lenzburg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin and Wildegg ).

From the late 1820s until the mid 1960s, Arapawa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds.

From the date of partition and independence in 1947 until 1950, Ajmer-Merwara remained a province of the new Dominion of India.

From 366 he was able to serve as bishop in peace until his death.

From the end of World War II until the widespread change of regime in Eastern Europe in November 1989, the Bulgarian Communist Party ( BCP ) exerted complete economic, social and political control in Bulgaria.

From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls.

From the beginning of each playing period with a stroke-off ( a set strike from the centre-spot by one team ) until the end of the playing period, the ball is in play at all times, except when either the ball leaves the field of play, or play is stopped by the referee.

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 1960s until 1975, the population of Cambodia increased by about 2. 2 % yearly, the lowest increase in Southeast Asia.

From 2002 until 2011 Cote d ' Ivoire was split by the rebellion between the existing government in the south and the Forces Nouvelles in the north.

From 1902 until its abrogation in 1934, the Platt Amendment authorized the US to use military force to preserve Cuba's independence.

From 1978 until his death in 1988 he served as the minister-president of Bavaria.

From 1974 until 1982, different presidential administrations chose to focus on ending the persistent insurgencies that sought to undermine Colombia's traditional political system.