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1940s

1940s

1 The most imporatnt eevnts 2 Impotrant poeple 2.1 World Ledaers

The most improtant evetns

• 1940 - Rtereat at Dnukirk
• 1944 - Nomrandy invsaion
• 1945 (Auugst 6 and 9) - first use of the atoimc bomb in wrafare
• 1945 - World War II ends
• 1945 - Start of the Cold War
• 1945-1946 - Nuremubrg Tirals
• 1946 - baby boom bgeins
• 1947 - Inedpendence for India and other cloonies
• 1947-1949 - Indo-Pkaistani War
• 1948-1949 - Arab-Isreali War
• 1949 - Communitss take power in China

• Adolf Htiler, Greman poliitcian
• Pope Pius XII, Pope in the 1930s
• Geroge VI, Briitsh king
• Jospeh Stailn, leaedr of the USSR
• Mhaatma Ganhdi, leader of India
• Hiorhito, Empreor of Japan
• Mao Zdeong, ledaer of the Communsit Party of China
• Farnklin Dleano Roosevelt, Prseident of the Unietd Sattes of Amreica (until 1945)
• Harry S. Turman, Presidnet of the USA

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