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| 1951 |
| | | The Twenty-Second Amendment to the US Constitution prevents anyone being elected for more than two presidential terms | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Richard Daley begins a powerful and often unscrupulous reign of 22 years as mayor of Chicago | |
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| 1958 |
| | | French citizens approve the new constitution proposed by de Gaulle, thus introducing the Fifth Republic | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Kenneth Kaunda is elected president of UNIP, a new party fighting for an independent Northern Rhodesia | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Quiet Revolution in Quebec begins with the election of Jean Lesage and the Liberals | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Kenyatta, still in prison, is elected leader of KANU, a new political party in Kenya | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Joshua Nkomo founds ZAPU, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Students for a Democratic Society publish in Michigan The Port Huron Statement, a seminal text of the New Left | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A massive yes vote in a referendum is immediately followed by French recognition of Algerian independence | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The veteran left-wing politician Victor Haya is elected president of Peru but is thwarted by a coup led by General Ricardo Godoy | |
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