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| 1946 October 1 |
| | | Twelve of the defendants at Nuremberg are sentenced to death by hanging | |
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| 1946 October 15 |
| | | Hermann Goering, sentenced to death at Nuremberg, kills himself with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he is due to be hanged | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Peacetime conscription, known as national service, is introduced in Britain for all 18-year-old males | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Violent sectarian division in Kashmir results in war between India and Pakistan in support of the rival sides | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Six Arab states attack Israel in support of the Palestinians, starting the first Arab-Israeli war | |
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| 1948 |
| | | A nine-year civil war begins in Colombia, bringing eventually some 200,000 deaths | |
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| 1948 December 23 |
| | | Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The first Indo-Pakistani war ends with a Kashmir demarcation line approved by the UN but acceptable to neither state | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Egypt controls the Gaza Strip area of Palestine at the end of the Arab-Israeli war | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Jordan occupies the West Bank area of Palestine af the end of the Arab-Israeli war | |
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