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| 1955 |
| | | Russia forms the Warsaw Treaty Organization (or Warsaw Pact) with her east European allies, as a counterbalance to NATO | |
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| c. 1955 |
| | | Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain become known as Angry Young Men | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis forms his own quintet, extending it in 1958 to a sextet | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American is set in contemporary Vietnam and foresees troubles ahead | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Thomas Mann publishes a longer but still incomplete version of his novel Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Milbourne House, seriously damaged in World War II, is restored and divided into two separate dwellings | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Nasser alarms the west by buying eastern-bloc arms through Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Austria achieves a much delayed return to nationhood after the Soviet Union finally agrees to withdraw from the country | |
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| 1955 |
| | | The first Disneyland opens in California, an event watched on television by 90 million Americans | |
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