During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.

* 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

Starting third baseman Ken Keltner and outfielder Ray Mack were both drafted in 1945 taking two more starters out of the lineup.

Due to the wartime travel restrictions, the first three games of the 1945 World Series were played in Detroit, where the Cubs won two games, including a one-hitter by Claude Passeau, and the final four were played at Wrigley.

After losing the 1945 World Series to the Detroit Tigers, the Cubs finished with winning seasons the next two years, but those teams did not enter post-season play.

Over the next two centuries, the use of French grew to the extent that, by the Liberation in 1945, all islanders had a working knowledge of French.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author.

The Grand Guignol was revived once again in London in 1945, under the direction of Frederick Witney, where it ran for two seasons at the Granville Theatre.

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

The creation of the two states made the 1945 division of Germany permanent.

As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 and the onset of the Cold War in 1947, the country was split between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany.

Support in Scotland was critical to Labour's overall electoral fortunes as without Scottish MPs it would have gained only two UK electoral victories in the 20th century ( 1945 and 1966 ).

In January 1945, the two governments signed a treaty reincorporating Kosovo into Yugoslavia as an autonomous province.

Harley-Davidson received two Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Awards, one in 1943 and the other in 1945, which were awarded for Excellence in Production.

* In the 1945 film Kings Row, Parris Mitchell, a psychiatrist played by Robert Cummings, recites the first two stanzas of " Invictus " to his friend Drake McHugh, played by Ronald Reagan, before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated by a cruel doctor.

It was through abstinence from much of the Second World War that the US found itself one of only two superpowers left in 1945, whereas the British Empire, France, and Germany were all contenders prior to this.

The 1945 – 46 season, when the league was played over two geographical groups due to the ravages of WWII, is not statistically considered, even if its title is fully official.

* 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.

* 1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1. 8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months.

Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito met with the president of the Bishops ' Conference of Yugoslavia, Aloysius Stepinac on 4 June 1945, two days after his release from imprisonment.

Merleau-Ponty first taught at Chartres, then became a tutor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he was awarded his doctorate on the basis of two important books: La structure du comportement ( 1942 ) and Phénoménologie de la Perception ( 1945 ).

* 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew.

The Korean peninsula was divided into two occupied zones in 1945, with the northern half of the peninsula occupied by the Soviet Union and the southern half by the United States.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

*" Great Hunt On For 27 Navy Fliers Missing In Five Planes Off Florida ", The New York Times, December 7, 1945.

* Patrick the Great ( 1945 )

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

* Medal " For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945 " ( 1945 )

Keynesian economics advocates a mixed economy — predominantly private sector, but with a significant role of government and public sector – and served as the economic model during the later part of the Great Depression, World War II, and the post-war economic expansion ( 1945 – 1973 ), though it lost some influence following the tax surcharge in 1968 and the stagflation of the 1970s.

In his novels, Semyonov covered much Soviet intelligence history, ranging from the Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1923 ), through the Great Patriotic War ( 1941 – 45 ), to the Russo – American Cold War ( 1945 – 91 ).

The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in an Anglican newspaper called The Guardian in 1944 and 1945, and soon thereafter in book form.

Stalingrad was awarded the title Hero City for its heroism in 1945, and Great Britain's King George VI awarded the citizens of Stalingrad the jeweled " Sword of Stalingrad " in recognition of their bravery.

Great Canadian Political Cartoons, 1915 to 1945.

The date ( expressed as the year in the reign of the emperor at the time the coin was stamped ) is on the reverse of all coins, and, in most cases, country name ( through 1945, 大日本 or Dai Nippon, " Great Japan "; after 1945, 日本国, Nihon koku, " State of Japan ") and the value in kanji is on the obverse, except for the present 5-yen coin where the country name is on the reverse.

Fascism, a movement which grew out of post-war angst and which accelerated during the Great Depression of the 1930s, gained momentum in Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), sparked by Nazi Germany's aggressive expansion at the expense of its neighbors.

* The economic and political aftermath of World War I and the Great Depression in the 1930s led to the rise of fascism and nazism in Europe, and subsequently to World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ).

* Great Son ( 1945 )

The stock market crash of 1929 marked the start of the greatest Great Depression | depression in modern history with some effects felt through 1945.

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941 to 1945, Kerch was the site of heavy fighting between Soviet Army and Axis forces.

Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, in 1945, during World War II.

The first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, was written in 1945.

* Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen ( 1945, The Moomins and the Great Flood ) ( translated into English )

's ) based at Great Yarmouth from November 1942 to 1945, and was " Mentioned in Dispatches ".

In 1945 a large fire ( The Great Fire ) broke out in the city causing widespread damage.

The Korean independence officially occurred on 1 December 1943, when the United States, China, and Great Britain signed the Cairo Conference, which stated, “ The aforesaid three powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that “ in due course ” Korea shall become free and independent .” In 1945, the United Nations developed plans for trusteeship administration of Korea.

From 1945 to 1955, the Great Seal changed quarters almost once a year.