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1940s
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s – 1940s – 1950s 1960s 1970s |
Years: | 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 |
Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 1940s was the decade that started on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.
Events
- 1940 – Retreat at Dunkirk
- 1941; Attack on Pearl Harbor, which followed by U.S join the war then.
- 1944 – Normandy invasion
- 1945 (August 6 and 9) – first use of the atomic bomb in warfare
- 1945 – World War II ends
- 1945 – Start of the Cold War
- 1945-1946 – Nuremberg Trials
- 1946 – baby boom begins in the United States
- 1947 – Independence for India and other colonies
- 1947-1949 – Indo-Pakistani War
- 1948-1949 – Arab-Israeli War
- 1949 – Communists take power in China
People
World leaders
- Adolf Hitler, German politician
- Pope Pius XII, Pope in the 1930s
- George VI, British king
- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
- Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR
- Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India
- Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
- Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States (until 1945)
- Harry S Truman, President of the United States