Timeline of the 1940s: Media
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People in New York City celebrating the end of the European phase of World War II,...
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Hattie McDaniel with the Academy Award plaque recognizing her as best supporting...
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American author Richard Wright posing in his study, photograph by Gordon Parks, May...
OWI/FSA/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; photograph, Gordon Parks (LC-USW3-030278-D)
Freight train tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration...
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Directed, produced, cowritten by, and starring Orson Welles, Citizen Kane...
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The USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December...
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Removal of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles to internment camps, 1942.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USF34-072313-D)
Anne Frank at her school desk in the Netherlands, 1940; taken from her photo album.
United Archives GmbH/Alamy
Nighthawks, oil on canvas by Edward Hopper, 1942, in the Art Institute of...
A. Burkatovski—Fine Art Images/SuperStock
Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi working on the first atomic pile underneath...
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Poster for the original Broadway production of the 1943 musical Oklahoma!...
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A family marching at the head of a column of Jews on their way to be deported during...
National Archives and Records Administration/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org
Dorothy Kamenshek, a star player of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball...
Courtesy, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York
A U.S. Army officer and World War II veteran greeting his family on his return from...
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Martha Graham performing in Appalachian Spring, 1954; the score was by Aaron...
Baron—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
People celebrating in Times Square, New York City, on V-E Day, May 8, 1945.
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U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr., signing the United Nations charter...
The Harry S. Truman Library/NARA
Atomic bomb exploding over Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945.
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, c. 1945
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The surge in births from 1946 to 1964 led to a generation that would change the culture,...
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), c. 1946.
Courtesy of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
British prime minister Winston Churchill.
FSA-Office of War Information Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USW33-019093-C)
Souvenir postcard, Hotel Flamingo pool, Las Vegas, 1951.
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The Great Isaiah Scroll, the largest and one of the oldest of the Dead Sea Scrolls....
Zev Radovan—www.BibleLandPictures.com/Alamy
Jackie Robinson standing in the dugout with his teammates at Ebbet's Field, 1947.
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Chuck Yeager posing with the Bell X-1 aircraft (nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis” in...
U.S. Air Force
Mahatma Gandhi lying in state at Birla House in New Delhi shortly before the procession...
Keystone—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
A doctor providing medical care to a Palestinian refugee under supervision of the...
National Archives, Washington, D.C. (488743981)
Armored cars of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) heading to confront the Egyptian...
Government Press Office/The State of Israel National Photo Collection
Advertisement for the Polaroid Land Camera, The Boston Globe, November 26,...
The Boston Globe/Newspapers.com
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson signing the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A prototype De Havilland D.H. 106 Comet jet airliner flying over England on August...
Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Basketball game between the Baltimore Bullets and the Philadelphia Warriors, 1950s.
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Mao Zedong officially declaring the formation of the People's Republic of China before...
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