History Timeline - 1940s

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Events and Trends

• World War II
• The shoa
• First nuclear bomb
• Independence for some former colonies
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life

World Leaders

• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill
• Joseph Stalin
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Harry S Truman
• Charles de Gaulle
• Benito Mussolini

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

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