1940 දශකය

Above title bar: events during World War II (1939–1945): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching Omaha Beach on D-Day; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France; The Holocaust occurs as Nazi Germany carries out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews are killed; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain and The Blitz; The creation of the Manhattan Project leads to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first uses of nuclear weapons, which kill over a quarter million people and lead to the Japanese surrender; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.
Below title bar: events after World War II: From left to right: The Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948; The Nuremberg trials are held after the war, in which the prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany are prosecuted; After the war, the United States carries out the Marshall Plan, which aims at rebuilding Western Europe; ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer.

1940 දශකය (ඉංග්‍රීසි:  1940s, nineteen-forties, the '40s හෝ the Forties) යනු 1940 ජනවාරි 1 දින ආරම්භ වී 1949 දෙසැම්බර් 31 දින අවසන් වූ දශකය වෙයි.

අමතර අවධානයට

• 1940s in television
• 1940s in literature
• Greatest Generation (the remaining members of that generation came of age in the first half of the decade to serve in WW II).

කාල රේඛාව

The following articles contain brief timelines listing the most prominent events of the decade.

• 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

භාහිර සබැඳි

• Heroes of the 1940s - slideshow by Life magazine
• 1940s.org සංරක්ෂණය කළ පිටපත 2011-06-20 at the Wayback Machine