1940s Timeline By jakecolumbus26 Mar 24, 1940 Jeep invented Feb 22, 1941 Mount Rushmore finished Apr 13, 1941 Italy joins allies Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Jun 16, 1942 Bataan death march Oct 4, 1943 1943 Jun 6, 1944 D-Day Jul 24, 1944 First German V1 and V2 rockets fired Feb 20, 1945 U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Apr 10, 1945 Germany surrenders Apr 17, 1945 United Nations founded May 14, 1945 FDR dies Mar 5, 1946 Winston Churchhill "Iron Curtain' speech Sep 9, 1948 Gandhi Assasinated Oct 27, 1949 China Becomes Communist
