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Events In 1955



I find this to be very interesting, unless Wikipedia is just completely wrong:

  1. January 22 - Pentagon unveils plans to develop ICBM with nuclear payload
  2. Three days later, January 25, the USSR finally stops fighting against Nazi Germany (WTF?)
  3. Three days later, January 28, Congress authorizes Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from China.
  4. Fifteen days later, Eisenhower sends first US “advisors” to South Vietnam.
  5. Churchill resigns that year, April 5.
  6. One month later, May 5, West Germany becomes a sovereign state.
  7. Four days later, May 9, W. Germany joins NATO.
  8. Five days after that, May 14, Warsaw Pact is formed
  9. The next day, Austria is made a sovereign nation again (neutral)
  10. August 25, the last Soviet forces leave Austria.
  11. Also that year: Rosa Parks’ bus incident, Disneyland opens, General Motors becomes first American corporation to make over $1billion in a single year…

So, um, when did World War II end exactly? And why did the USSR continue fighting Germany ten years after we had beaten it? Clearly I don’t know my history all that well.

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{See also Operation Paperclip, Humaniculture, A-Bomb Didn’t End WWII, Eugenics programs in the United States, Forced Sterilizations in the United States}







10 Reader Responses

  1. Julia Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    http://www.barnesreview.org/html/wwii.html

    This artticle is too pro-Hitler for me but it gives a good counter-history from a mainstrean source.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Patton

    Patton wanted to continue the war by turning on the USSR. It’s in the “After the German surrender” section. He was serious. Check out the “Interwar years” section for the Bonus Army info.

  2. Tim Boucher Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    Where does Rudolf Hess fit into all of this?

  3. Julia Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    Churchhill resigned in 1945, not 1955. He lost the election to Clement Attlee. I suspect 1945 is the year the USSR stopped fighting Germany. I don’t know about the other dates.

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-his...ction=tdihArticleCategory&id=5209

    This seems like a good place to start about Hess. I’ve never gotten into his stroy because of the hero worship he inspires among Neo-Nazis but it turns out to be a good story.

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhess.htm

    I wasn’t expecting to find this guy.

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcameronDE.htm

    I don’t think I believe the double story but I like this analysis.

    http://www.eyespymag.com/intv.html

    I’m guessing that if you dig you’ll find the typical Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis=NWO conspiracy theory. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  4. Julia Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    My understanding is that we imported eugenics to Nazi Germany. It found fertile ground but we planted and US business interests fertilized.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_eugenicists

  5. Tim Boucher Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dat...es/april/5/newsid_2822000/2822959.stm

    1955: Sir Winston Churchill resigns
    Sir Winston Churchill has resigned as prime minister of Britain due to his failing health.

    Are we entering another Jack Palance situation?

  6. Julia Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Are we entering another Jack Palance situation?

    Yeah, we are. During my childhood it was always clear that Churchill had been forced out immediately following the war. That was always the subtext of biographies. We viewed him as a hero but his countrymen tossed him out on his ear.

  7. Julia Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    Duh. I followed your link and found out that Churchill had been elected twice. The second time was in 1951.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dat...october/26/newsid_3687000/3687425.stm

  8. Tim Boucher Says:
    November 4th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    Dammit. I think I switched dimensions again. Stupid real life Quantum Leap!

  9. speedbird Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 3:07 am

    This *may be complete tinfoil*,

    but I was once told by a man whom I had no reason to doubt that, after the world’s governments met in 1945 to divvy up what was left of the world after the War, they agreed to meet again every ten years thereafter. So for years of strangely arbitrary targets and weird momentous decisions, look to ‘55, ‘65 ‘75…

  10. Julia Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    complete tinfoil

    Complete tinfoil is the only type of tinfoil you want to bother yourself with. Like 24K gold. Only the best will do.



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