1940s

This is a list of events that occurred during the 1940s.
=Timeline=
==1940==
Main article: World War II
===May===
====10th====
*Beginning of the Battle of France.
===June===
====25th====
*End of the Battle of France.
===September===
====7th====
*Beginning of the London Blitz
==1941==
===December===
====7th====
*Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
==1944==
===June===
====6th====
*Allied troops land in Normandy; constituting the beginning of D-Day and Operation Overlord.
==1945==
===April===
====1st====
*Beginning of the Battle of Okinawa.
====12th====
*Sudden death of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
*Harry S. Truman becomes the new president.
====30th====
*Death of Adolf Hitler by suicide.
===June===
====22nd====
*End of the Battle of Okinawa.
===August===
====6th====
*The first Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
====9th====
*The second Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
==1949==
===April===
====4th====
*The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded.
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