Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

After the industrial scale production of cadmium started in the 1930s and 1940s, the major application of cadmium was the coating of iron and steel to prevent corrosion ; in 1944, 62 % and in 1956, 59 % of the cadmium in the United States was for coating.

After liberation from the fascist occupation on 29 November 1944, several Albanian partisan divisions crossed the border into German-occupied Yugoslavia, where they fought alongside Tito's partisans and the Soviet Red Army in a joint campaign which succeeded in driving out the last pockets of German resistance.

After the Continuation War Finland lost major land areas to Russia in the Moscow Armistice of 1944, and the figure was said to have lost the other of her arms, as well as a hem of her " skirt ".

After his masters, Singer joined the Armed Forces, working for the United States Navy on mine warfare and countermeasures from 1944 until 1946.

After the Allied liberation of Rome on June 4, 1944, Fellini and Enrico De Seta opened the Funny Face Shop where they survived the postwar recession drawing caricatures of American soldiers.

After Germany's withdrawal from Kosovo in late 1944, Yugoslavia's communist partisans took possession of the province and committed retaliatory massacres against Albanians.

After August 1944 and the Liberation of Paris, he wrote Anti-Semite and Jew.

After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944, he was imprisoned for a second time as an opponent of the regime.

After gaining independence in 1943, the Lebanese government formed an official delegation in 1944 to negotiate with the French the terms related to handing over the LAF.

* 1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.

After that loss, Fadden became deputy Leader of the Opposition under Menzies, a role that continued after Menzies folded the UAP into the Liberal Party of Australia in 1944.

After the death of Maglione in 1944, Pius left the position open and named Tardini head of its foreign section and Montini head of the internal section.

After making the cut he — unlike Desmond — was sent to war in 1944.

After a site survey in September by Papa Riedel and Schubert, Kammler chose the code name Zement ( cement ) for it in December, and work to blast an underground cavern into a cliff at Lake Traunsee near Gmunden commenced in January 1944.

After the Red Army recaptured Lviv in the Lvov – Sandomierz Offensive of 1944, Banach returned to the University and helped re-establish it after the war years.

After World War II started, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union ( USSR ) in 1940, and later occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.

After the Nazi retreat in 1944, it was again occupied by the USSR.

After the fall of France in 1940, Hollywood drove fashion in the United States almost entirely, with the exception of a few trends coming from war torn London in 1944 and 1945, as America's own rationing hit full force, and the idea of function seemed to overtake fashion, if only for a few short months until the end of the war.

After three years of relative peace, the German-Soviet front returned in 1944 to the land border on the Dniester.

After Soviet offensives were fought to a standstill, Ryti's successor as president, Marshall Mannerheim, dismissed the agreement and opened secret negotiations with the Soviets, which resulted in a ceasefire on 4 September and the Moscow Armistice on 19 September 1944.

After the July 20 Plot in 1944, the Ausland-SD also took over all functions of the Abwehr, or military intelligence.

It was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR from 1939 to 1941 as the capital of the Belastok Voblast After the Nazi attack on Soviet Union in 1941, the area was taken over by Germans and the city became the capital of Bezirk Białystok, a separate region in German occupied Poland, until 1944.

After World War II, when Romania was beginning to fall under Soviet influence, he served as secretary of the Union of Communist Youth ( 1944 – 1945 ).

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

After Guangdong fell to the Communists, Chiang relocated the government to Chongqing, while Li effectively surrendered his powers and flew to New York for treatment of his chronic duodenum illness at the Hospital of Columbia University.

After France and the Communists agreed to a partition of Vietnam, Eisenhower rejected the agreement, offering military and economic aid to southern Vietnam.

After the Albanian Communists repudiated the Greater Albania agreement, the Balli Kombëtar condemned the Communists, who in turn accused the Balli Kombëtar of siding with the Italians.

After Jacobo Arbenz came to power in 1951, he extended political freedom, allowing Communists in Guatemala to participate in politics.

After three weeks, the Communists were defeated: the Varkiza agreement ended the conflict and disarmed ELAS, and an unstable coalition government was formed.

After four years of rule, the Khmer Rouge regime was removed from power in 1979 as a result of an invasion by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and was replaced by moderate, pro-Vietnamese Communists.

After the Soviet Union recognized the Viet Minh as the government of Vietnam in 1950, French Communists ( PCF ) took up the cause of Vietnam's independence.

After Hitler's takeover of the German government in 1933, political enemies of the Nazis were persecuted, and their institutions closed or destroyed ; the Gestapo began actions against Polish and Jewish students ( see: Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau ), Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists, arrests were even made for speaking Polish in public, in 1938 the Nazi-controlled police destroyed the Polish cultural centre.

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

After the Communists seized power in Romania in 1947, he headed the Ministry of Agriculture, then served as Deputy Minister of the Armed Forces under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, becoming a Major General.

After Chiang Kai-shek's suppression of the Communists, the Nationalist Party split in two, with the Nationalist Party's " left-wing " ( led by Wang Jingwei ) controlling the government in Hankou, and Chiang and the party " right-wing " ( led by Chiang Kai-shek ) establishing a rival government in Nanjing.

After being attacked by a warlord friendly to Chiang, Wang's leftist government disintegrated later in May 1927, and Chiang's troops began an organized purge of Communists in territories formerly controlled by Wang.

After reaching Hong Kong, Zhou was disguised as a businessman named " Li ", and entrusted to the care of local Communists.

After the rise of the PCI of Enrico Berlinguer at the 1976 general elections, when the Communists scored 34, 4 % of the votes, Moro conceived the idea of a " national solidarity " cabinet, whose parliamentary base should include the PCI as well.

After passage of the Munich Agreement, she said that if the Czech refugees fleeing Nazi oppression were Communists, they should seek asylum with the Soviets instead of the British.

After the Nationalists lost control of mainland China to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Ching-kuo followed his father and the retreating Nationalist forces to Taiwan.

After World War II, when the Communists took control of China, Parliament debated the merits of recognising the Communist government.

After the CPB was banned in the wake of the August 1991 coup d ' état, Belarusian communists regrouped and renamed themselves the Party of Communists of Belarus ( PCB ), which became the umbrella organization for Belarus's communist parties and pro-Russian groups.

After the war, the influential French Communist Party ( PCF ) projected itself as " Le Parti des Fusillés " ( The Party of those shot ), in recognition of the thousands of Communists executed for their Résistance activities.

After the collaboration between the Communists and Nationalists collapsed in 1927, the Comintern blamed Chen, and systematically removed him from all positions of leadership.

After 1911, Kung became one of Yan's most trusted advisors, and Yan was soon recognized as the military governor of Shanxi by Yuan Shikai, and effectively controlled Shanxi until 1949, when the Communists took control of mainland China.