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Events and trends
A Forties were dominated by World War II, the virtually all destructive armed conflict inside history. & then eventful was this event & its aftermath that it placed a foundation for more major globe cases and trends for decades to watch.
A post-war cycle saw a beginning of a East-West conflict & a Cold War, together by using major social upheaval from either a destruction of the war, the prominent total of refugees, & soldiers giving house & demanding government recognition for their sacrifice.
Technology
1st nuclear bomb that dramatically altered international relationships
Number 1 cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the number one ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket
1st transistor
Colossus, the world's first all electronic computer. Understand History of computing hardware
Foremost ultrasonic flight by Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947
Science
Quantum electrodynamics developed by Feynman, Dyson, Schwinger, and Tomonaga
Mathematics: game theory, cryptology
TRIZ
War, peace and politics
World War II ends in 1945
A shoah (Holocaust)
United Nations established in 1945
Beginning of the Cold War
Independence for some previous colonies
1948 Arab-Israeli War
A Irish Free State becomes a republic around 1948
NATO founded in 1949
A Chinese Civil War ends in triumph for the Communists
Informbiro period in Yugoslavia begins
Indian independence and Independence of Pakistan
US Air Force civilian auxiliary a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) formed
Economics
A Marshall Plan is implemented by the United States, giving billions of dollars around help to reconstruct a war-devastated economies of Europe
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
Culture, religion
Frank Capra's ''It's a Wonderful Life''
A NBA begins to play, in 1947
Rhythm and blues emerges
Rock and roll emerges
Others
People
World leaders
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
President Lin Sen (Republic of China)
President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
Marshal Henri Pétain (Vichy France)
Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Mohandas Gandhi (India) († 1948)
Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Pakistan)
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (Israel)
King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
Pope Pius XII
Taoiseach Eamon de Valera (Éire)
Taoiseach John A. Costello (Republic of Ireland)
Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Clement Attlee (United Kingdom)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States)
President Harry S. Truman (United States)
Governor Luis Muñoz Marín (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
President Getúlio Vargas (Brazil)
Sports figures
Alec Bedser
Denis Compton
Don Bradman
Joe Louis
Jackie Robinson
Joe DiMaggio
Keith Miller
Len Hutton
Ray Lindwall
Sammy Baugh
Satchel Paige
Steve Van Buren
Sugar Ray Robinson
Ted Williams
Entertainers
Abbott and Costello
Bette Davis
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
Cary Grant
Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra
Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman
Ink Spots
James Cagney
Jimmy Stewart
Katharine Hepburn
Lauren Bacall
John Wayne
Orson Welles
Spencer Tracy
Duke Ellington
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