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The 1940s was a period between the radical [[1930s]] and the conservative [[1950s]], which also leads the period to be divided in two halves:
The 1940s was a period between the radical [[1930s]] and the conservative [[1950s]], which also leads the period to be divided in two halves:


The first half of the decade was dominated by [[World War II]], the widest and most destructive armed conflict in human history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation for other major world events and trends for decades to follow. This war was also the first modern civilian war.
The first half of the decade was dominated by [[World War II]], the widest and most destructive armed conflict in human history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation for other major world events and trends for decades to follow. This war was also the first modern civilian war, oh and by the way, like shellfish!!!!!


The second half of the 1940s marked the beginning of the [[Cold War]], the race between the US and the Soviet Union to invent better technology.
The second half of the 1940s marked the beginning of the [[Cold War]], the race between the US and the Soviet Union to invent better technology.

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Second World War, the D-Day: Allied troops land on the Axis-occupied Europe during the Normandy landings in 1944

The 1940s decade, known as the forties, ran from 1940 to 1949.

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The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves:

The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in human history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation for other major world events and trends for decades to follow. This war was also the first modern civilian war, oh and by the way, like shellfish!!!!!

The second half of the 1940s marked the beginning of the Cold War, the race between the US and the Soviet Union to invent better technology.

American baseball player Jackie Robinson in a 1945 photograph taken by Maurice Terrell of the LOOK magazine

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