Ba'athism is an Arab nationalist ideology that combines the call for Arab unity with secularism and a form of socialism, under the slogan of unity, freedom and socialism. The Arabic word ba'th means resurrection or renaissance. The movement was developed in Damascus by the Syrian thinkers Michel Aflaq, a Christian, and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, a Sunni Muslim, who founded the Ba'ath Party. It spread to other Arab countries and came to power in Syria and Iraq in the 1960s, where it split into rival branches. In both countries the party became the instrument of authoritarian rule, under Hafez al-Assad in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The Iraqi party was banned after the 2003 invasion, and Syria's Ba'athist government fell in December 2024.
Before and after
- 11 December 1946Founding of UNICEF
- 18 December 1946Birth of Steven Spielberg
- from 19 December 1946 to 1 August 1954First Indochina War
- from 26 December 1946 to 27 January 1995Rise of Italian Social Movement - National Right
- 1947Rise of Ba'athism
- 1947Publication of The Plague
- 1947Founding of FK Žalgiris
- 1947Discovery of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite
- 1947Construction of John F. Kennedy International Airport
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