1940

Battle of Britain

Leon Trotsky Assassinated

1941

Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

Holocaust begins

Jeep Invented

Manhattan Project Begins

Mount Rushmore Completed

Nazi Rudolf Hess Flies to Britain on a Peace Mission

Siege of Leningrad

1942

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Japanese-Americans Held in Camps

Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death

T-shirt Introduced

1943

Italy Joins the Allies

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

1944

Ballpoint Pens Go On Sale

D-Day

First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired

Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt

1945

FDR Dies

First Computer Built

Germans Surrender

Hitler Commits Suicide

Microwave Oven Invented

United Nations Founded

U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946

Bikinis Introduced

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

Nuremberg Trials

Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech

1947

Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

Marshall Plan

Polaroid Cameras Invented

1948

Berlin Airlift

"Big Bang" Theory Formulated

"Dewey Defeats Truman" in the Paper

1949

China Becomes Communist

First Non-Stop Flight Around the World

George Orwell Publishes Nineteen Eight-Four

NATO Established

Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb