1940

America was funding World War 2. Americans were making things which was shipped over to Europe. America shouldn't have been involved. If countries come to invade, then you fight. Countries can choose to help other countries. If Americans all voted and chose to help countries in Europe fight Hitler, then that is fine. But the problem is fake news persuaded Americans towards getting involved in that way. But globalists were behind WW2. Don't fight Hitler. Don't fight Mao. Don't fight Stalin. Fight the globalists or don't fight at all. Don't spend too much time fighting the puppets. Same thing happened in Star Wars. The Republic fought the Separatists and failed to go after Palpatine who was funding both sides of the war. Follow the money.

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Roosevelt started a third term in 1940. The Auschwitz concentration camp opened in Germany in May. Many people were murdered at this camp.

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1941

1941-05-01 - Cheerios cereal, or rather CheeriOats as it was known then, was introduced. 1

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1941-05-19 - Chinese leader Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist Viet Minh in Vietnam.

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1941-10-31 - In South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, a sculpture of 60-foot-high faces of four U.S. presidents, was completed after 14 years under the direction of Gutzon Borglum.

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1941-12-07 - Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. People in the U.S. government knew Japan was going to do this because they decoded the plans. They intercepted the codes. They cracked the codes. They chose not to try to stop the attack because they wanted an excuse to enter the Second World War.

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1942

1942-08-13 - The Manhattan Project, a U.S. federally-funded effort to develop and produce nuclear weapons, began.

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1943

1943-04-19 - German troops and police entered the Warsaw Ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. The Jews refused to surrender, and the Germans ordered the burning of the ghetto, which lasted until May 16 and killed an estimated 13,000 people.

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1944

1944-06-06 - This sixth day of June was momentous: D-Day, when the Allies landed in Normandy on the way to liberate Europe from the Nazis.​

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1945

The end of World War 2. FDR died. Germany surrendered.

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1945-08-06 - On the 6th and 8th of August of 1945, The United States detonates two nuclear weapons above the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and (so far only) use of such a weapon against an enemy people.

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1945-08-10 to the 17th - Korea is divided into North (occupied by the Soviet Union) and South (occupied by the United States).

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1945-10-24 - The United Nations was founded in San Francisco, California, by representatives of 50 countries.

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1945-11-20 - The Nuremberg trials began, military tribunals prosecuting prominent members of the leadership of Nazi Germany for their crimes in World War II.

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1946

1946-02-15 - ENIAC, the first electronic, general purpose digital computer, was announced to the public by the U.S. Army.

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1946-03-05 - Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech, condemning Soviet Union policies in Europe.

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1946-07-01 - Nuclear testing began in the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the first of 23 detonations by the United States between 1946 and 1958.

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1946-07-05 - Bikini swimsuits made their debut on a Paris beach but quickly spread to beaches everywhere.

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1946-12-20 - It's a Wonderful Life premiered in theaters.

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1946-12-26 - Las Vegas was transitioning into the gambling capital with the opening of the Flamingo Hotel.

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1947

Cold War begun.

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Sometime in 1947, the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic documents stored in caves on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, were discovered.

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In June of 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall gave a paper at Harvard in which he spoke of an urgent need to help Europe rebuild and later that year, the Marshall Plan doing just that took effect.

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1948

1948-04-12 - Despite headlines saying "Dewey Defeats Truman," Harry Truman was elected president.

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1948-05-14 - Jewish politician and diplomat David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the State of Israel, and U.S. President Harry S. Truman quickly recognized the new nation.

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1949

1949-03-02 - The Boeing B-50 named Lucky Lady II landed at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas, completing the first non-stop flight around the world. It was refueled in the air four times.

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1949-04-04 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established, an intergovernmental military alliance among 29 North American and European countries.

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1949-06-08 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale, was published. | Read this book here.

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The answer to 1984 is 1776.

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1949-10-07 - Tokyo Rose, the femme fatale of Japanese war broadcasts, is sentenced to ten years in prison. She would be paroled in 1956 and pardoned in 1977. 1