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1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
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Wars
1. World War II (1939–1945) 1.1. Nazi Germany invades Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and the French Third Republicfrom 1939 to 1941. 1.2. Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabiafrom 1939 to 1941. 1.3. Germany faces the United Kingdom in the Battle of Britain(1940). It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign up until that date. 1.4. Ger...
Major political changes
1. Establishment of the United Nations Charter(June 26, 1945) effective (October 24, 1945). 2. Establishment of the defence alliance NATOApril 4, 1949.
Internal conflicts
1. 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. 2. Victory of Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War. 3. Beginning of Greek Civil War, which extends from 1946 to 1949.
The Bretton Woods Conference was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II. The conference was held from July 1–22, 1944. It established the Internati...
Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include: 1. August 20, 1940 – Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician is attacked by Ramón Mercader using an ice axe. Trotsky died the next day from exsanguinationand shock. 2. May 27, 1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi official who played a key r...
Technology
1. The Atanasoff-Berry computer is now considered one of the first electronic digital computing device built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State Universityduring 1937–1942. 2. Construction in early 1941 of the Heath Robinson Bombe & the Colossus computer, which was used by British codebreakers at Bletchley Park and satellite stations nearby to read Enigmaencrypted German messages during World War II. This was operational until 1946 when it was destroyed under orders fro...
Science
1. Physics: the development of quantum theory and nuclear physics. 2. Mathematics: the development of game theory and cryptography. 3. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl's raft Kon-Tiki crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Tahiti proving the practical possibility that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times, rather than South-East Asia as it was previously believed. 4. June 14, 1949, Albert II a rhesus macaque monkey, became the first mammal is space during a U.S....
Film
1. Oscar winners: Rebecca (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Casablanca (1943), Going My Way (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Hamlet (1948), All the King's Men(1949). 2. Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston (1941), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra (1946), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder (1944), Meet Me...
Music
1. Bing Crosbywas the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Crosby was the leading figure of the crooner sound as well as its most iconic, defining artist. By the 1940s, he was an entertainment superstar who mastered all of the major media formats of the day, movies, radio, and recorded music. 2. The most popular music style during the 1940s was swing, which prevailed during World War II. In the later periods of the 1940s, less swing was prominent and crooners like Frank Sinatra, along with g...
Literature
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingwayin 1940. 2. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camusin 1942. 3. The Stranger by Albert Camusin 1942. 4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéryin 1943. 5. Anti-Semite and Jew by Jean-Paul Sartrein 1943. 6. The Fountainhead by Ayn Randin 1943. 7. No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartrein 1944. 8. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgrenin 1945. 9. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frankin 1947. 10. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Millerin 1949. 11. Nineteen Eighty-...
Military leaders
1. Dwight D. Eisenhower, American General who led the Allied forces during the Normandy invasion. 2. Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Union Field Marshal who led the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin. 3. Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal who led the Nazis during the North African Campaign. 4. Yamamoto Isoroku, Japanese Fleet Admiral who led the Imperial Army during the attack on Pearl Harbor. 1. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 2. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring 3. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein 4. Field...
Activists and religious leaders
1. Mohandas Gandhiduring the 1940s 2. Raoul Wallenberg, c. 1944 3. Muhammed Ali Jinnahwith Gandhi, 1944. 4. Chiune Sugiharac.1940s 1. Joel Brand 2. Behic Erkin 3. Varian Fry 4. Mohandas Gandhi 5. Billy Graham 6. Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog 7. Muhammad Ali Jinnah 8. Necdet Kent 9. Aristides de Sousa Mendes 10. Pope Pius XII 11. Martha Sharp 12. Waitstill Sharp 13. Chiune Sugihara 14. Raoul Wallenberg
Politics
1. Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary-general Arab League 2. Georgi Mikhailov Dimitrov, Chairman of the Executive Committee Communist International 3. Camille Gutt, Managing Director International Monetary Fund 4. Jacques Camille Paris, Secretary-general Council of Europe 5. Edward Warner, President of the Council International Civil Aviation Organization 6. John G. Winant, Director International Labour Organization
Buchanan, Andrew. "Globalizing the Second World War," Past and Present no. 258 (February 2023): 246-281. online; also see online reviewLewis, Thomas Tandy, ed. The Forties in America.3 volumes. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011.Lingeman, Richard. The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War(New York: Nation Books, 2012. xii, 420 pp.)Yust, Walter, ed., 10 Eventful Years(4 vol., Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc, 1947), encyclopedia of world events 1937-46Heroes of the 1940s - slideshow by Life magazine1979 – The Iran hostage crisis begins. In the aftermath, a second energy crisis develops, tripling the price of oil and sending U. S. gasoline prices over $1 per gallon for the first time. 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191 crashes after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport , killing all 271 aboard and two on the ground, making it one ...
But after the Iranian Hostage Crisis began in the spring of 1979, the US economy sunk into a deep recession, the worst since the Great Depression. Emphasizing the energy crisis, President Carter mandated restrictions on speed limits and the heating of buildings.
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1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. September 26 – WWII: The United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.
