
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 |} ---- ==Events and trends== The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. The post-war period saw the beginning of the East-West conflict and the Cold War, together with major social upheaval caused by the destruction of the war, the large number of refugees, and soldiers returning home and demanding government recognition for their sacrifice. ===Technology=== * First nuclear bomb * First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket * First transistor * Colossus computer, the world's first totally electronic computer. ''See'' History of computing hardware * First supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947 ===Science=== * Quantum electrodynamics developed by Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga * Mathematics: game theory, cryptology * TRIZ ===War, peace and politics=== * World War II ends in 1945 * The shoah (Holocaust) * Beginning of the Cold War * Independence for some former colonialism * 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 Communist Party of China * Informbiro period in Yugoslavia begins * Indian independence and Independence of Pakistan * United States Air Force civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) formed ===Economics=== * The Marshall Plan is implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars in aid to reconstruct the war-devastated economies of Europe ===Culture, religion=== * Frank Capra's ''It's a Wonderful Life'' * The NBA begins play, in 1947 * Rhythm and blues emerges ===Others=== ==People== ===World leaders=== * Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada) * President Lin Sen (Republic of China) * President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China) * Marshal Henri Petain (Vichy France) * Adolf Hitler (Germany) * Mohandas Gandhi (India) († 1948) * Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan) * Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) * King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (Italy) * Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy) * Emperor Hirohito (Japan) * Pope Pius XII * Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire) * Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland) * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) * 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 (Puerto Rico) * President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil) ===Sports figures=== * Joe Louis * Sugar Ray Robinson * Ted Williams * Jackie Robinson * Joe DiMaggio * Sammy Baugh * Steve Van Buren * Satchel Paige ===Entertainers=== * Abbott and Costello * Bette Davis * Bing Crosby * Bob Hope * Cary Grant * Clark Gable * Frank Sinatra * Humphrey Bogart * Ingrid Bergman * James Cagney * Jimmy Stewart * Katharine Hepburn * Lauren Bacall * John Wayne * Orson Welles * Spencer Tracy * Duke Ellington 1940s la:Decennium 195 simple:1940s
Articles and events specifically related to the decade from 1940-1949. Years by decade 20th century
This needs some additions - is "stunk" computer a misprint? :It must be. Googling the phrase "stunk computer" gives only wikipedia and its mirrors/forks. I'll delete it. --User:Lancevortex 18:28, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC) Independence for some former colonies - which? The links are not entirely appropriate. American sports figures and entertainers - additions? Will add a few details when I have the time. User:Jackiespeel 16:59, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC) More on women's role/position is needed. Not just for this but others User: Protarion 18/06/2005 3:03 PM (EST Sydney)
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1940s
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 |} ---- ==Events and trends== The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. The post-war period saw the beginning of the East-West conflict and the Cold War, together with major social upheaval caused by the destruction of the war, the large number of refugees, and soldiers returning home and demanding government recognition for their sacrifice. ===Technology=== * First nuclear bomb * First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket * First transistor * Colossus computer, the world's first totally electronic computer. ''See'' History of computing hardware * First supersonic flight by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947 ===Science=== * Quantum electrodynamics developed by Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga * Mathematics: game theory, cryptology * TRIZ ===War, peace and politics=== * World War II ends in 1945 * The shoah (Holocaust) * Beginning of the Cold War * Independence for some former colonialism * 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 Communist Party of China * Informbiro period in Yugoslavia begins * Indian independence and Independence of Pakistan * United States Air Force civilian auxiliary the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) formed ===Economics=== * The Marshall Plan is implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars in aid to reconstruct the war-devastated economies of Europe ===Culture, religion=== * Frank Capra's ''It's a Wonderful Life'' * The NBA begins play, in 1947 * Rhythm and blues emerges ===Others=== ==People== ===World leaders=== * Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada) * President Lin Sen (Republic of China) * President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China) * Marshal Henri Petain (Vichy France) * Adolf Hitler (Germany) * Mohandas Gandhi (India) († 1948) * Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan) * Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) * King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (Italy) * Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy) * Emperor Hirohito (Japan) * Pope Pius XII * Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire) * Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland) * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) * 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 (Puerto Rico) * President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil) ===Sports figures=== * Joe Louis * Sugar Ray Robinson * Ted Williams * Jackie Robinson * Joe DiMaggio * Sammy Baugh * Steve Van Buren * Satchel Paige ===Entertainers=== * Abbott and Costello * Bette Davis * Bing Crosby * Bob Hope * Cary Grant * Clark Gable * Frank Sinatra * Humphrey Bogart * Ingrid Bergman * James Cagney * Jimmy Stewart * Katharine Hepburn * Lauren Bacall * John Wayne * Orson Welles * Spencer Tracy * Duke Ellington 1940s la:Decennium 195 simple:1940s
1940s
Articles and events specifically related to the decade from 1940-1949. Years by decade 20th century
1940s
This needs some additions - is "stunk" computer a misprint? :It must be. Googling the phrase "stunk computer" gives only wikipedia and its mirrors/forks. I'll delete it. --User:Lancevortex 18:28, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC) Independence for some former colonies - which? The links are not entirely appropriate. American sports figures and entertainers - additions? Will add a few details when I have the time. User:Jackiespeel 16:59, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC) More on women's role/position is needed. Not just for this but others User: Protarion 18/06/2005 3:03 PM (EST Sydney)
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