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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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| 1946 December |
| | | John D. Rockefeller Jr. gives land along the East River in New York for a permanent United Nations headquarters | |
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| 1947 |
| | | An election campaign in Poland, marked by violence and the use of terror, brings a Communist landslide | |
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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 |
| | | US scientist Edwin Land demonstrates a new device, the Polaroid camera, to the Optical Society of America | |
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| 1947 |
| | | English author and alcoholic Malcolm Lowry publishes an autobiographical novel, Under the Volcano | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The US Congress passes a National Security Act, setting up the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Capa, Cartier-Bresson and others found Magnum, a cooperative of leading photographers running their own picture agency | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture | |
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| 1947 |
| | | President Truman defines postwar US policy by pledging support for any nation defending itself against Communism | |
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