1940s


Events and Trends

   * World War II
   * The shoa
   * First nuclear bomb
   * Beginning of the Cold War
   * Independence for some former colonies
   * 1948 Arab-Israeli War
   * Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
   * Mathematics: game theory, cryptology

World Leaders

   * President Lin Sen (Republic of China)
   * President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
   * Adolf Hitler (Germany)
   * Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (India)
   * Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
   * King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
   * Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
   * Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
   * Pope Pius XII
   * Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
   * King George VI (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
   * Prime Minister Clement Atlee (United Kingdom)
   * President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (United States)
   * President Harry S. Truman (United States)
   * Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (ƒire)
   * Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland)

Entertainers

   * Abbott and Costello
   * Ingrid Bergman
   * Humphrey Bogart
   * James Cagney
   * Bing Crosby
   * Bette Davis
   * Clark Gable
   * Cary Grant
   * Katharine Hepburn
   * Bob Hope
   * Jimmy Stewart
   * Spencer Tracy
   * Orson Welles