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Toggle North America subsection. 5.1 Canada. ... The following elections occurred in the year 1945. Africa. 1945 South-West African legislative election; Asia
Both major American parties vied for union votes, with the Democratic Party usually much more successful. Labor unions became a central element of the New Deal coalition that dominated national politics from the 1930s into the mid-1960s during the Fifth Party System. [1] Liberal Republicans who supported unions in the Northeast lost power after ...
The 1945 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 5 July 1945. [b] With the Second World War still fresh in voters’ minds, the opposition Labour Party under the leadership of Clement Attlee won a landslide victory with a majority of 146 seats, defeating the incumbent Conservative-led government under Prime Minister Winston Churchill amidst growing concerns by the public over ...
Labour Governments, 1945–1951 (1984) 313pp. Pritt, Denis Nowell. The Labour Government 1945–1951 (1963) detailed coverage, with a far-left perspective online; Reeves, Rachel, and Martin McIvor. "Clement Attlee and the foundations of the British welfare state". Renewal: a Journal of Labour Politics 22#3/4 (2014): 42+.
1945 elections in the United States (4 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "1945 in American politics" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace won the election of 1940, and were at the helm of the nation as it prepared for and entered World War II. Roosevelt sought and won an unprecedented fourth term in office in 1944, but this time with Harry S. Truman as his Vice President.
The American and Filipino troops enter Intramuros, Manila. The capital of the Philippines , Manila, is liberated by combined American and Filipino ground troops. Battle of Iwo Jima : A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag .
"The 1945–1946 strike Wave." in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History (Routledge, 2015) pp 256–265. [ISBN missing] Wolman, Philip J. "The Oakland general strike of 1946." Southern California Quarterly 57.2 (1975): 147–178. JSTOR 41170592; Zetka Jr, James R. "Work organization and wildcat strikes in the US automobile industry ...