1940s Timeline

1940

• Battle of Britain
• Leon Trotsky Assassinated
• Nylons on the Market
• Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France

1941

• Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
• Jeep Invented
• Manhattan Project Begins
• Mount Rushmore Completed
• Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission
• Siege of Leningrad

1942

• Anne Frank Goes Into Hiding
• The Bataan Death March
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Japanese-Americans Held in Camps
• Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death
• T-shirt Introduced

1943

• French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed
• Grave of Katyn Forest Massacre Found
• Italy Joins the Allies
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

1944

• Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale
• D-Day
• First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
• Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt

1945

• FDR Dies
• First Computer Built (ENIAC)
• Germans Surrender
• Hitler Commits Suicide
• Microwave Oven Invented
• Slinky Toy Hits Shelves
• United Nations Founded
• U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946

• Bikinis Introduced
• Dr. Spock's The Common Book of Baby and Child Care Is Published
• Juan Perón Becomes President of Argentina
• Nuremberg Trials
• Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech

1947

• Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
• Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered
• Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British
• Marshall Plan
• Polaroid Cameras Invented

1948

• Berlin Airlift
• "Big Bang" Theory Formulated
• "Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Newspaper
• Gandhi Assassinated
• Policy of Apartheid Begun
• State of Israel Founded

1949

• China Becomes Communist
• First Non-Stop Flight Around the World
• George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four
• NATO Established
• Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb

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