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.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1946
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)