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 decade, known as the forties, ran from 1940 to 1949.
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The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves:
The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in human history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation for other major world events and trends for decades to follow. This war was also the first modern civilian war.
The second half of the 1940s marked the beginning of the Cold War, the race between the US and the Soviet Union to invent better technology.
- Nazi Germany loses the Battle of Britain 1940
- Nazi Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and France from 1940-1941
- The United States enter World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
- Germany and Japan suffer defeats at Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Midway in 1942 and 1943
- Subash Chandra Bose escapes from house-arrest and founds the INA in Singapore. The INA made of Indian POWs held by the Japanese accompanies the Japanese to the borders of India. However, Axis defeat results in the annihilation of the INA and surrender following Nethaji's death in 1945
- D-Day (June 6, 1944)
- Germany surrenders May 7, 1945
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and August 9, 1945); Japan surrenders on August 15
- World War II officially ends on September 2, 1945
- The Holocaust (the shoah)
- President İsmet İnönü (Turkey)
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Clement Attlee (United Kingdom)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States)
- President Harry S. Truman (United States)
- General Secretary Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
- Governor Luis Muñoz Marín (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
- President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
- President Juan Perón (Argentina)
- Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
- Chancellor Adolf Hitler (Germany)
- Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- Prime-Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
- General Aung San (Burma)
- Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)
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