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Brief E"co,mter (/945)
Word War and the Go den Age of British Cinema
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FILMS
WORLD EVENTS
Winners of the Best Picture Oscar
1940
Rebecca How Green Was My Valley Mrs Miniver Casablanca Going My Way The Lost Weekend The Best Years of Our Lives Gentleman's Agreement Hamlet All the King's Men
1941
1944 1945
1945 Box-Office Hits Pinocchio Sergeant York Bambi This is the Army Going My Way The Bells of St Mary's Song of the South Welcome Stranger The Red Shoes Samson and Delilah Cinderella
1947
1948 1948
1949 1949
Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister as the Conservative leader of the wartime Coalition government. Germany invades the Soviet Union; the USA enters the war in response to the Japanese bombing of their naval base at Pearl Harbour. Operation Overlord: the D-Day Landings of Allied troops in Normandy, France. The first atomic bombs are dropped in warfare on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The formation of the United Nations, successor to the League of Nations as an international peacekeeping body. The Truman Doctrine: United States President Harry Trumen declares that the USA will 'support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures'. The formation of the independent state of Israel. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist following the partition of India. Mao Zedong, or Mao Tse-tung, comes to power as leader of the People's Republic of China. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is formed by Western Allies; Germany is divided into East and West, politically aligned with the USSR and Western Europe and the USA respectively.