The Decades: 1940
Current Events
Fantasia - film, Walt Disney (1940)
First electron microscope (1940)
Japanese attack Pearl Harbour (1941)
Citizen Kane - film, Orsen Welles (1941)
Lou Gehrig died (1941)
The Maltese Falcon - film, Humphrey Bogart (1941)
Bambi - film, Walt Disney (1941)
First computer (1942)
Magnetic recording tape invented (1942)
Casablanca - film, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman (1943)
Penicillin successfully used (1943)
Allied invasion of Europe (1944)
Surrender of Germany (1945)
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan (1945)
State of Israel formed (1948)
Ghandi assassinated (1949)
Babe Ruth died (1948)
Literature
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene (1940)
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (1940)
Journey Into Feer, Eric Ambler (1940)
The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck (1942)
The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas (1942)
Guadalcanal Diary, Richard Tregaskis, (1943)
God is My Co Pilot, Robert L. Scott Jr. (1943)
A Bell for Adono, John Hersey, (1944)
Time Must Have Stopped (1944)
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams (1944)
Harvey, Mary Chase (1945)
Animal Farm, George Orwell (1945)
All My Sons, Arthur Miller (1946)
The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neil, (1946)
Hiroshima, John Hersey, (1946)
Baby and Child Care, Dr. Spock (1946)
A Street Car Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (1947)
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank, (1947)
I, the Jury, Mickey Spillane, (1947)
The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck (1947)
The Heart of the Matter, Graham Green (1948)
Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley (1948)
The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer (1948)
Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener (1948)
No Highway, Nevil Shute (1948)
The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas (1948)
Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell (1949)
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller (1949)
The Greatest Story Ever Told, Fulton Oursler (1949)