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Bookmark or Share- U.S. Timeline, 1940-1949 - America's Best HistoryTimeline. 1940. April 1, 1940 - The 1940 census indicates a United States population of 132,164,569. This represented an increase of 7.3% since 1930, the lowest rate of increase in the 20th century. The center of the United States population was geographically placed two miles southeast by east of Carlisle, Indiana.
- The 1940s: American Pop Culture History - RetroWasteRetroWaste » The 1940s: A World At War. The 1940s got swallowed up in World War II. Many baseball players and other celebrities went to war, and much of American culture was focused around it. Advertisement. Much of popular culture was entrenched in anti-German and anti-Japanese sentiment.
- 1940s - WikipediaThe 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as " the '40s " or " the Forties ") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere.
- 1940s: The Pivotal Decade | Encyclopedia.com1940s: The Pivotal Decade. views 2,859,836 updated. 1940s: The Pivotal Decade. It is impossible to underestimate the importance of World War II (1939–45) in U.S. history. The country became involved in the conflict after the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Japanese aircraft.
- The War Years: A Timeline of the 1940s - ThoughtCoThe 1940s tower over every other decade of the 20th century as the most full of sorrow, patriotism, and ultimately, hope and the beginning of a new era of American dominance on the world stage. This decade, commonly called "the war years," is synonymous with World War II.
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