Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Bix, 2000)
1940 · Resource
Herbert Bix's Pulitzer-winning biography reassessing Emperor Hirohito's role in Japan's war.
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Around 1940
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)