Editing 1954 (section)

== Events ==
* February 25 - [[Adib Shishakli]] is overthrown as President of Syria.
* March 1 - [[Castle Bravo]]: the United States tests its first lithium deuteride fueled thermonuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
* March 4 - [[Todor Zhivkov]] is named General Secretary of the [[Bulgarian Communist Party]].
* March 13 - The [[KGB]] is founded to serve as the [[secret police]] of the Soviet Union, replacing the [[MVD]] in that capacity. [[Ivan Serov]] is appointed chairman.
* March 13 to May 7 - The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ is fought.
* May 4 to 7 - [[Alfredo Stroessner]] seizes control of Paraguay following a successful coup.
* May 25 - [[Ho Chi Minh]] launches a campaign of land reform in North Vietnam.
* June 18 to 27 - [[Operation PBSuccess]]: at the behest of the [[United Fruit Company]], the CIA installs [[Carlos Castillo Armas]] as the military dictator of Guatemala, deposing democratically-elected leader Jacobo Árbenz.
* August 1 - End of the First Indochina War. 
* September 3 - The [[Communist Party of China]] takes control of the the Yijiangshan Islands from Taiwan.
* September 27 - [[Zhou Enlai]] is named the first Premier of the People's Republic of China.
* November 1 - Beginning of the [[Algerian War of Independence]].
* November 30 - [[Daniel François Malan]] steps down as Prime Minister of South Africa. [[Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom]] is appointed as his successor.
* December 2 - [[Joseph McCarthy]] is censured by the United States Senate.
* Unknown - [[William Unek]] commits his first killing spree near Mahagi in the Belgian Congo, killing 21 people with an axe.