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- Chronology: 1940s
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- CAPSULE THE 40s
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- May 1940: Dunkirk evacuation
- June 1940: France surrenders to Germany
- July 1940: Battle of Britain begins Sept. 1940:
- Japan joins the Axis Nov. 1940: F.D.R.
- elected to a third term Mar. 1941: Lend-Lease
- bills signed June 1941: Germany invades Russia
- Dec. 1941: Bombing of Pearl Harbor
- U.S. enters W.W. II Feb.
- 1942: MacArthur leaves the Philippines Mar.
- 1942: American Nisei interned June 1942:
- Battle of Midway Aug. 1942: Battle of
- Guadalcanal begins Nov. 1942: Allies invade
- North Africa Feb. 1943: Germans defeated at
- Stalingrad Sept. 1943: Allied invasion of
- Sicily Dec. 1943: Teheran Conference
- June 1944: D-Day invasion of Normandy
- Aug. 1944: Warsaw uprising Sept. 1944:
- Paris liberated Nov. 1944: F.D.R. re-elected
- Feb. 1945: Yalta Conference
- Mar. 1945: Allies enter Germany Apr. 1945:
- Truman becomes President after F.D.R.'s
- death May 1945: Germany surrenders
- June 1945: U.N. Charter signed
- Aug. 1945: Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
- Japan surrenders May 1947:
- Marshall Plan outlined June 1947: Taft-Hartley
- Act passed Aug 1947: India partitioned
- India and Pakistan achieve independence
- Jan. 1948: Gandhi assassinated
- Apr. 1948: Soviets blockade Berlin May
- 1948: State of Israel proclaimed June 1948:
- Berlin Airlift begins Nov. 1948: Truman
- re-elected as President May 1949: Soviets
- lift blockaded of Berlin Aug. 1949: U.S. joins
- NATO Oct. 1949: People's Republic of China
- founded Dec. 1949: Chinese Nationalists
- establish government on Taiwan
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