Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Dower, 1999)
1946 · Resource
John Dower's Pulitzer-winning study of occupied Japan remaking itself after surrender.
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Around 1946
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)