The 40’s
- Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945) - President 1932 - 1945
- Atomic Bomb Development Summary
- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) - Premier 1927 - 1953
- Nike Missiles (1945)
- Potsdam Agreement (1945)
- Harry S. Truman (1884/1972) - President 1945 - 1953
- Russian Downing of B-29 Hog Wild (August 29, 1945)
- End of World War II (September 2, 1945)
- Separation Of Berlin (1945)
- Igor Gouzenko (KGB in Canada, 1945)
- Greek Civil War (1945-1949)
- First Indochina War (1946 – 1950)
- U.S. Constabulary (1946 - 1952)
- Birth of the Central Intelligence Agency / CIA (1947 )
- UFO Crash in Roswell, New Mexico (July 3,1947)
- Marshall Plan (April 3,1948)
- Czechoslovakia Coup (February, 1948)
- Berlin Blockade (June 24, 1948 - May 12.1949)
- Berlin Airlift (June 26, 1948 - May 12, 1949)
- Soviet Atomic Bomb Test (August 29, 1949)
- Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union (1949)
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (1949)
- H-bomb development Summary (1949)
- Pete Seegar, Almanac Singers, support for Communism (late 1940s)
- 1940 Links
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