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Question

tell me everything you know about the 1940s

Answer 1

1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949

Answer 2

early '40's: emerging from the Great Depression and gearing up for war. Mid '40's WWII and rationing with material shortages. Late '40's GI's getting back starting families, still material shortages but without rationing so skyrocketing inflation under a free market economy. A heck of a lot more going on to say in a few paragraphs.

Answer 3

1940 - Germany over-ran western Europe
1941 - Germany invaded Russia
- Pearl Harbour, Wake Island, Singapore bombed
1942 - Battle of Midway, fall of Malaya & Singapore
1943 - Germany suffers reversals in Russia
1944 - Allies retakes Western Europe
- Ardennes offensive (battle of the Bulge)
1945 - Germany defeated
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuked
- Russia occupies northern half of Korean peninsula & Kurile islands
1946 to 1949 - Philippines, India, Indonesia gain independence
- Emergency declared in Malaya
- China becomes Communist

Answer 4

We entered WWII in 1941. My dad was born in 1940 and my mom in 1949. My aunt was born in 1947.

Answer 5

World War ll
Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima
Big Band Music
Women in the workplace

Answer 6

WWII and the Holocaust; start of Cold War, rise of the Iron Curtain; Israel refounded; Chinese civil war between Communists and Nationalists; founding of the UN; start of the nuclear age

Answer 7

World war two was going on.

Answer 8

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade40.html

Answer 9

You caught my specialty, besides the 19-teens era. Here, read, enjoy.

Technology ---

The first nuclear weapon is built and tested in 1945.
First cruise missile, the V-1 flying bomb (in 1941 or 1942), and the first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket (in 1942) are invented.
Colossus, the world's first totally electronic and digital computer is built in 1944.
ENIAC is invented in 1946.
The first transistor is invented in 1947.
The first supersonic flight is performed by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947.
First USA helicopter flight in 1940.
Plutonium discovered in 1941.
Atom split in 1942.

Science ---

Quantum electrodynamics developed by Feynman, Dyson, Schwinger, and Tomonaga
Mathematics: cybernetics, game theory, cryptology
TRIZ

War, peace and politics ---

Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Benelux, France, and the Soviet Union from 1940-1941.
The United States enters 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.
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)
United Nations established in 1945
In 1946, former British PM Winston S. Churchill gives his famous "Iron Curtain" speech with US President Harry S Truman present.
Beginning of the Cold War (generally thought of as somewhere from 1946-1949)
Independence for some former colonies (including India and Pakistan in 1947, Israel in 1948, and Indonesia in 1949)
1948 Arab-Israeli War
The Irish Free State becomes a republic in 1948
NATO founded in 1949
The Chinese Civil War ends in victory for the Communists in 1949. The Nationalists government retreat to Taiwan.
The Berlin blockade in 1948.
Informbiro period in Yugoslavia begins
US Air Force civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) formed
Truman Doctrine is created.
Soviets test their first nuclear bomb in 1949 (Soviet atomic bomb project). This is seen by some as the beginning of the Cold War.

Economics ---

The Great Depression ends in the United States after it begins participation in World War II, creating millions of jobs for unemployed workers.
The Marshall Plan is implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars in aid to reconstruct the war-devastated economies of Europe
International Monetary Fund
World Bank

Culture, religion ---

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is released in 1946
Michael Curtiz's Casablanca is released in 1942
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is released in 1941
Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity is released in 1944
William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver is released in 1942
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious is released in 1946
Walt Disney's Fantasia is released in 1940
Walt Disney's Dumbo is released in 1941
Walt Disney's Bambi is released in 1942
The Abstract Expressionism movement in art emerges
Bebop emerges
Rhythm and blues emerges
Rock and roll emerges
George Orwell publishes Animal Farm
Gremlins, the first book by Roald Dahl is published in 1943

Others ---

Alcohol exclusion laws first passed in US.
The Basketball Association of America, soon to be renamed the National Basketball Association (NBA), begins play in 1946

World leaders ---

Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia)
Prime Minister Arthur Fadden (Australia)
Prime Minister John Curtin (Australia)
Prime Minister Frank Forde (Australia)
Prime Minister Ben Chifley (Australia)
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
President Lin Sen (Republic of China)
President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
President Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (India)
Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Mohandas Gandhi (India) († 1948)
Governor-General Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)
King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Holy Father Pope Pius XII
Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire)
Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland)
General Secretary Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
Captain General Francisco Franco (Spain)
President Ismet Inonu (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)
Governor Luis Muñoz Marín (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
President Juan Peron (Argentina)

Sports figures---

Alec Bedser
Denis Compton
Don Bradman
Joe Louis
Jackie Robinson
Joe DiMaggio
Keith Miller
Len Hutton
Ray Lindwall
Sammy Baugh
Satchel Paige
Stan Musial
Steve Van Buren
Sugar Ray Robinson
Ted Williams
Jeff Miller
Timur Boskailo

Entertainers ---

Dizzy Gillespie
Abbott and Costello
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Cary Grant
Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Ink Spots
James Cagney
Jimmy Stewart
Katharine Hepburn
Carole Lombard
Gary Cooper
Marlene Dietrich
Judy Garland
Ginger Rogers
Lana Turner
Lena Horne
Cab Calloway
Lauren Bacall
John Wayne
Orson Welles
Veronica Lake
Vivien Leigh
Marlon Brando
Spencer Tracy
Duke Ellington
Walt Disney
Carl Stuart Hamblen
Rita Hayworth
Danny Kaye
Betty Grable
The Andrews Sisters

Musicians ---

Charlie Parker
Bud Powell
Charles Mingus
Max Roach
Frank Sinatra
Matt Heitzmanm
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
Thelonious Monk
Dexter Gordon
Miles Davis
Lester Young
Bill Monroe
Benny Carter

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