1940-1950 Timeline

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  • Katyn Forest Massacre

  • Auschwitz Open

  • Battle of Britain

  • Nazis Begin Killing Adults & Children w/ Disabilities

  • Babi Yar Massacre

  • Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor

  • Operation Barbarossa

  • Nazis Raze Town in Retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's Death

  • Anne Frank Goes Into Hiding

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

  • French Resistance Leader Jean Moulin Killed

  • Italy Joins the Allies

  • D-Day

  • First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired

  • Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

  • Germans Surrender

  • United Nations Founded

  • Winston Churchill Gives His "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem

  • Jews Are Massacred in the Post-Holocaust Kielce Pogrom in Poland

  • Marshall Plan

  • Jewish Refugees Aboard the Exodus Turned Back by British

  • Gandhi Assassinated

  • State of Israel Founded

  • Policy of Apartheid Begun

  • NATO Established

  • Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb

  • China Becomes Communist

  • First Modern Credit Card Introduced

  • U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb

  • Korean War Begins