Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1940-1949

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Battle of Britain

Leon Trotsky Assassinated

Nylons on the Market

Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in France

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

Jeep Invented

Manhattan Project Begins

Mount Rushmore Completed

Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission

Siege of Leningrad

Anne Frank Goes Into Hiding

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Japanese-Americans Held in Camps

Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death

T-shirt Introduced

French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed

Grave of Katyn Forest Massacre Found

Italy Joins the Allies

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale

D-Day

First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired

Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt

FDR Dies

First Computer Built

Germans Surrender

Hitler Commits Suicide

Microwave Oven Invented

Slinky Toy Hits Shelves

United Nations Founded

U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Bikinis Introduced

Dr. Spock Publishes The Common Book of Baby and Child Care

Juan Perón Becomes President of Argentina

Nuremberg Trials

Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech

Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered

Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British

Marshall Plan

Polaroid Cameras Invented

Berlin Airlift

"Big Bang" Theory Formulated

"Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Paper

Gandhi Assassinated

Policy of Apartheid Begun

State of Israel Founded

China Becomes Communist

First Non-Stop Flight Around the World

George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four

NATO Established

Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb

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