The oddest of things of the 1940s wouldn't be World War 2 (WWII) or even Hitler as aspects of that were used as excuses and distractions designed to tear at the fabrics of nation states. The oddest of things would not even be the alleged aliens, the UFOs at Roswell, the Area 51 thing.
Instead, the thing that raises my eyebrows the most regarding this decade of the nineteen-forties, of the rise of the baby boomers, would be the sudden emergence of the United Nations (U.N.) who went on to tell the world what to do in 2020 with the Covid Scam.
In the 1940s, America dropped two bombs on Japan. Hitler was running around killing Jews. Following that were the Nuremberg Trials and the Nuremberg Code. Many Americans felt they were saving the world as they participated in the Military-Industrial Complex. The good news is that the patriotism of Americans contributed to the success they had in the 1950s.
The 1940s was the Rise of the Palpatine.
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1940s
World War 2 continued from 1939 to 1945.
1940
February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot. However, their current names are adopted in 1941.
March 12 – Moscow Peace Treaty: The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow, ending the Winter War; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.
April – Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's trusted sidekick, makes his debut in Detective Comics #38.
May 15 - The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader, writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler, addressing him as "My friend", and requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.
December 30 - California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway).
1941
January 27 – WWII: Joseph Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception, concerning a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
March 27 - Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, to study the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, in preparation for a future attack.
May 29 – The Disney animators' strike occurs, due to Walt Disney refusing to recognize his animators and their low pay.
July 17 – Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends.
November 5 – WWII: The United States holds peace talks with Japan.
December 2 – WWII: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down (or failed perhaps) and that the attack on Pearl Harbor is to be carried out according to plan. It looks like the American federal government was aware Japan was planning to attack for months (or at least for days) but chose not to do tell the general public or at least put up some security. They could have watched the seas and skies as they knew it was coming for so many months. But some people wanted an excuse to have the US enter WWII. The attack came 5 days later. So, they at least had a five day warning.
December 8 - WWII: The Battle of Hong Kong begins shortly after 8:00 a.m. (local time), less than 8 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when Japanese forces invade Hong Kong, which is defended by British, Canadian and local troops. The United Kingdom officially declares war on the Empire of Japan.
December 26 – WWII: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1942
February 15 – WWII: Battle of Singapore – Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
May – Operation Pluto: The plan to construct oil pipelines under the English Channel, between England and France, is tested in the River Medway.
June 1 - WWII: Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy, and Japan.
June 5 – The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
December 1 – Gasoline rationing begins in the United States.
December 2 – Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" is then sent to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
1943
November 28 – WWII: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, to discuss war strategy. On November 30, they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord.
1944
December 20 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower is promoted to the rank of 5-star U.S. Five-Star General.
1945
January 18 – The Holocaust: The SS begins the evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp. Nearly 60,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, are forced to march to other locations in Germany; as many as 15,000 die. The 7,000 too sick to move are left without supplies being distributed.
February 4–11 – WWII: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin hold the Yalta Conference.
April 12 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly at Warm Springs, Georgia; Vice President Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States, and is sworn in that evening in the White House.
April 20 – WWII: On his 56th birthday, Adolf Hitler leaves his Führerbunker, to decorate a group of Hitler Youth soldiers in Berlin. It will be his last trip to the surface from his underground bunker.
August 6 – WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima: United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops a uranium-235 atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy", on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time, resulting in between 90,000 and 146,000 deaths. Second bomb dropped on the 9th. Naming that first bomb Little Boy is ironic as some people end up having sex with little boys. That is a way they blackmail politicians, governing leaders, Catholic priests, celebrities, etc, all around the world for decades and in some cases for centuries or God knows probably since the dawn of time since the times of before The World Flood and Noah's Ark. I have no idea why this bomb was called Littl Boy. I'm not saying it was a gay bomb.
August 14 – WWII: Emperor Hirohito accepts the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. His recorded announcement of this is smuggled out of the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
August 23 – Soviet–Japanese War: Joseph Stalin orders the detention of Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.
August 30 – WWII: Vietnam's capital Hanoi is taken by the Viet Minh, which ends the French occupation in what becomes North Vietnam, and thus the southern provinces become South Vietnam. This ends the August Revolution.
September 2 - The Democratic Republic of Vietnam is officially established, by Ho Chi Minh. Also, they say WWII ended on this day.
September 11 - Hideki Tōjō, Japanese prime minister during most of WWII, attempts suicide to avoid facing a war crimes tribunal.
October 15 – WWII: Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, is shot dead by a firing squad, for treason against France.
October 24 - The United Nations is founded by ratification of its Charter, by 29 nations.[28]
November 16 - The foundation of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is agreed at a meeting in London.
November 20 – The Nuremberg trials begin: Trials against 22 Nazis for war crimes of World War II start at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg.
1946
The Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) intensifies in 1946 between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China.
January 6 - The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
January 10 - Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age.
November 4 – UNESCO is established, as a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December 11 – UNICEF (the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund) is founded.
December 31 – President Harry S. Truman delivers Proclamation 2714, which officially ends hostilities in World War II.
1947
March 12 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed, to help stem the spread of Communism.
July 8 – Roswell UFO incident: A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found near Roswell, New Mexico.
July 18 - President Harry S. Truman signs the Presidential Succession Act into law, which places the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate next in the line of succession, after the Vice President.
July 29 – After being shut down on November 9, 1946, for a refurbishment, the ENIAC computer in the United States is turned back on again, and remains in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
September 18 - The National Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day, creating the United States Air Force, National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.
November 15 - The International Telecommunication Union (of 1865) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
November 15 - The Universal Postal Union (UPU) of 1874 becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations (effective July 1 1948).
1948
March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution. In this case, the Supreme Court was wrong. It does not violate the U.S. Constitution in reality.
August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
December 9 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Genocide Convention.
1949
February 1 – Rationing of clothes ends in the United Kingdom.
March 30 – The anti-NATO riot takes place, prompted by the decision of the Icelandic parliament to join the newly formed NATO.
April 4 – The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance.
May 5 – The Council of Europe is founded, by the signing of the Treaty of London.
May 11 - Israel is admitted to the United Nations, as its 59th member.
June 8 - George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in London.
August 3 – The Basketball Association of America (BAA) of 1946 and the National Basketball League (NBL) of 1937 finalize the merger that will create the National Basketball Association (NBA) of 1949.
August 24 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is established.
August 29 - The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 ("Joe 1"). Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
September 23 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that the Soviet Union has tested the atomic bomb.
October 1 – The People's Republic of China is officially proclaimed.
October 16 – Greek Civil War ends with a communist surrender.
December 29 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
Nice history lesson Joey..👍👀
What would you call the 1940s? I decided to call it the Booming Forties. I also came up with nicknames for other decades too.