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|- | align="center" | - 20th Century ''' - 21st Century |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades : 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 |} Events and trends , fierce 1944, the Nuremberg Rally 1936, the Nagasaki atom bomb 1945, the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin 1945 and the Gate of Auschwitz .]] The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II , arguably the widest and most destructive armed conflict in modern history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation for other major world events and trends for decades to follow. This war was also the first civilian war. The second half period marked the beginning of the East-West conflict and the Cold War , together with major social upheaval caused by the destruction of the war, the large number of refugees, and soldiers returning home and demanding government recognition for their sacrifice. Technology
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