| 1940 |
- Battle of Britain
- Leon Trotsky Assassinated
- Nylons on the Market
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| 1941 |
- Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor
- Manhattan Project Begins
- Mount Rushmore Completed
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| 1942 |
- Anne Frank Goes Into Hiding
- Battle of Midway
- Battle of Stalingrad
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| 1943 |
- Italy Joins the Allies
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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| 1944 |
- Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale
- D-Day Allied Invasion of France
- First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
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| 1945 |
- First Computer Built (ENIAC)
- Microwave Oven Invented
- Germans Surrender
- United Nations Founded
- U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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| 1946 |
- Bikinis Introduced
- Nuremberg Trials
- Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech
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| 1947 |
- Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
- Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered
- Marshall Plan
- Polaroid Cameras Invented
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| 1948 |
- Berlin Airlift
- "Big Bang" Theory Formulated
- State of Israel Founded
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| 1949 |
- China Becomes Communist
- First Non-Stop Flight Around the World
- NATO Established
- Soviet Union Develop own Atomic Bomb
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