The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson, 2010)
1940 · Resource
Isabel Wilkerson's history of the Great Migration of Black Americans out of the Jim Crow South.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
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)