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1940-1949 Political and Social History Literature
1940-49  1945 U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders, ending World War II. Cold War between United States and Soviet Union begins

1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black major-league ballplayer

 1941 Eudora Welty, Petrified Man

1947 Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

1949 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman