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1940 – Alien Registration (Smith) Act; 1940 – Oldsmobile becomes the first car maker to offer a fully automatic transmission; 1940 – Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry and Woody Woodpecker make their cartoon debuts; 1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first music popularity chart, the predecessor to today's Hot 100
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe , Asia , and elsewhere.
1 1940s. Toggle 1940s subsection. 1.1 1945. 1.2 1946. ... This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, ... 1947–1949 War and Civil War in Palestine.
Nadir of American race relations (c. 1890 –1940) Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) ... (1930–1949) Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969)
1945–1949: Post-World War II occupation of South Korea; North Korean insurgency in Republic of Korea [16] 1946 : Trieste , (Italy): President Truman ordered the increase of U.S. troops along the zonal occupation line and the reinforcement of air forces in northern Italy after the Yugoslav People's Army shot down an unarmed U.S. Army transport ...
List of American films of 1940; Timeline of United States history (1930–1949) References Further reading. Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. ...
Adm. Gerald F. Bogan meets Shah of Iran, December 3, 1949. October 5 – Walt Disney Productions' eleventh feature film, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, is released. It is Disney's final package film to be released during the 1940s and the last the studio would produce until 1977's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.