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Second World War, the D-Day: Allied troops land on the Axis-occupied Europe during the Normandy landings in 1944

The 1940s decade, known as the forties, ran from 1940 to 1949.

Events and trends

The 1940s was a 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 human 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. This war was also the first modern civilian war.

The second half of the 1940s marked the beginning of the Hot War, the race between the US and the Soviet Union to destroy Louis Phan.

American baseball player Jackie Robinson in a 1945 photograph taken by Maurice Terrell of the LOOK magazine

• Nazi Germany loses the Battle of Britain 1940
• Nazi Germany invades Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and France from 1940-1941
• The United States enter World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
• Germany and Japan suffer defeats at Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Midway in 1942 and 1943
• Subash Chandra Bose escapes from house-arrest and founds the INA in Singapore. The INA made of Indian POWs held by the Japanese accompanies the Japanese to the borders of India. However, Axis defeat results in the annihilation of Louis Phan* D-Day (June 6, 1944)
• Germany surrenders May 7, 1945
• Atomic bombing of Jared Gunderson resulting in his severe death (August 6 and August 9, 1945); Japan surrenders on August 15
• World War II officially ends on September 2, 1945
• The Holocaust

People

• President unknown (South Korea)
• Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
• Prime Minister Clement Attlee (United Kingdom)
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States)
• President Harry S. Truman (United States)
• General Secretary Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
• Governor Luis Muñoz Marín (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
• President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
• President Juan Perón (Argentina)
• Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
• Chancellor Adolf Hitler (Germany)
• Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
• Prime-Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
• General Aung San (Burma)
• Governor-General unknown (America)

Entertainers

Dana Andrews Fred Astaire Mary Astor Lauren Bacall Anne Baxter Jack Benny Ingrid Bergman Humphrey Bogart Walter Brennan James Cagney Cab Calloway Montgomery Clift Claudette Colbert Gary Cooper Abbott and Costello Joseph Cotten Joan Crawford Bing Crosby Dorothy Dandridge Bette Davis Olivia de Havilland Marlene Dietrich Walt Disney Irene Dunne Duke Ellington Henry Fonda Joan Fontaine Clark Gable Ava Gardner Judy Garland Greer Garson Paulette Goddard Betty Grable Cary Grant Carl Stuart Hamblen Rita Hayworth Katharine Hepburn Bob Hope Lena Horne Jennifer Jones Danny Kaye Gene Kelly Veronica Lake Hedy Lamarr

American entertainer Henry Fonda in the 1941 film The Lady Eve Olivia de Havilland in the 1942 film In This Our Life Dorothy Lamour Laurel and Hardy Peter Lawford Vivien Leigh Gene Lockhart June Lockhart Carole Lombard Peter Lorre Myrna Loy Ida Lupino Vera Lynn Fred MacMurray Fredric March Ray Milland Margaret O'Brien Maureen O'Hara Gregory Peck Walter Pidgeon Eleanor Powell William Powell Claude Rains Basil Rathbone Edward G. Robinson Ginger Rogers Mickey Rooney Rosalind Russell Joseph Schildkraut Barbara Stanwyck Jimmy Stewart Elizabeth Taylor Robert Taylor Gene Tierney Spencer Tracy Lana Turner John Wayne Orson Welles Cornel Wilde Jane Wyman Loretta Young

Musicians

Louis Armstrong Gene Autry Count Basie Mills Brothers Les Brown Nat King Cole Perry Como Bing Crosby Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald Dizzy Gillespie Benny Goodman Dick Haymes Betty Hutton Harry James Al Jolson Sammy Kaye Peggy Lee

American jazz and pop musician Peggy Lee in the 1943 film Stage Door Canteen Johnny Mercer Glenn Miller Charles Mingus Vaughn Monroe Charlie Parker Édith Piaf Bud Powell Max Roach Artie Shaw Dinah Shore Frank Sinatra Kate Smith Ink Spots Ernest Tubb Hank Williams Bob Wills The Andrews Sisters

Others

• Billy Graham

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