1940s - Events and trends

The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation for other major world events and trends for decades to follow. The second half period marked the beginning of the East-West conflict and the Cold War, together with maj ...

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1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, would forever be changed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne, on 28 June 1914. The murder would trigger a chain of events in which, within 30 days, war would break out in Europe, as well as other regions of the world. The long, wide, and protracted conflict ...

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Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s,especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In the United States, this decad ...

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1950s - World leaders. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada) Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada) Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China) President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan) President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel) Emperor Hirohito (Japan) Pope Pius XII Pope John XX ...

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1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1910s - Events and trends. The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, would forever be changed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne, on 28 June 1914. The ...

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