It established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and created the Bretton Woods system. == Assassinations and attempts == Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include: August 20, 1940 – Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician is attacked by Ramón Mercader using an ice axe.
Miniver (1942), Casablanca (1943), Going My Way (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Hamlet (1948), All the King's Men (1949). Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1940s include: The Maltese Falcon directed by John Huston (1941), It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra (1946), Double Indemnity directed by Billy Wilder (1944), Meet Me in St.
The Walt Disney Studios released the animated feature films Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), Fantasia (1940), and Bambi (1942). Although the 1940s was a decade dominated by World War II, important and noteworthy films about a wide variety of subjects were made during that era.
Hollywood was instrumental in producing dozens of classic films during the 1940s, several of which were about the war and some are on most lists of all-time great films.
Akira Kurosawa and other directors managed to produce significant films during the 1940s. Polish filmmakers in Great Britain created anti-nazi color film Calling mr.
It was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign up until that date. * Germany attacks the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941). * The United States enters World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The forces of the Western Allies land on the beaches of Normandy in Northern France (June 6, 1944). * Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D.
The conference was held from July 1–22, 1944.
The forces of the Western Allies land on the beaches of Normandy in Northern France (June 6, 1944). * Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D.
By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people. * The German Instrument of Surrender signed (May 7–8, 1945).
Victory in Europe Day. * Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and August 9, 1945); Surrender of Japan on August 15. * World War II officially ends on September 2, 1945. Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts *Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Arab–Israeli conflict (Early 20th century–present) * 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.
This was operational until 1946 when it was destroyed under orders from Winston Churchill.
Victory in Europe Day. * Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and August 9, 1945); Surrender of Japan on August 15. * World War II officially ends on September 2, 1945. Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts *Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Arab–Israeli conflict (Early 20th century–present) * 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.
After the Arab rejection of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (UN General Assembly Resolution 181) that would have created an Arab state and a Jewish state side by side, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria attacked the state of Israel.
Victory in Europe Day. * Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and August 9, 1945); Surrender of Japan on August 15. * World War II officially ends on September 2, 1945. Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts *Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Arab–Israeli conflict (Early 20th century–present) * 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.
The war commenced upon the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine in mid-May 1948.
To some degree internal and external tensions in the post-war era were managed by new institutions, including the United Nations, the welfare state, and the Bretton Woods system, facilitating the post–World War II economic expansion, which lasted well into the 1970s.
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