Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk 1940s 0 25767 107616 107615 2017-03-11T13:11:12Z Robin 120 date wikitext text/x-wiki {{decade |image=1945.jpg |description=The allied victory in WWII set the stage for the cold-war. |constitutes= }} '''[[World War II]]''' was the defining event of the 1940s, just as the [[Cold War]] was the defining event of the post-war period, the backdrop against which other events should be understood. ==World War II== {{FA|World War II}} [[World War II]] killed perhaps 75,000,000 people and devastated many countries. After [[Japan]]'s [[World War II/Attack on Pearl Harbor|Attack on Pearl Harbor]] ended the [[USA]]'s neutrality the Japan/[[Germany]] axis gradually lost militarily. ===Axis defeat=== Germany surrendered in [[1945]], followed later by Japan. ===Operation Paperclip=== [[image:Operation Paperclip.jpg|right|333px]] {{FA|Operation Paperclip}} Even before [[WWII]] had finished, the US [[Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency]] had begun [[Operation Paperclip]], a secret project to exfiltrate personnel of interest out of [[Germany]] and into the [[United States]]. As well as [[spook]]s, these included [[researcher]]s, especially rocket [[scientist]]s, but anyone who was of use to the US war machine. The surreptitious protection and transportation of sometimes infamous senior Nazis went on for many years over secret '[[ratlines]]'. ===Nuremberg Trials=== {{FA|Nuremberg Trials}} Rather than summary execution of perceived leaders of Nazi Germany, in November 1945, the allies convened the [[Nuremberg Trials]] to apply a legal process, which was applied to some leading Nazis. This appears to have acted as some kind of leverage over some of those initially cited for trial at Nuremberg, such as Dr. [[Theodor Benzinger‎]], who were exfiltrated to USA under [[Operation Paperclip]]. ==Cold War== {{FA|Cold War}} [[image:Hiroshima-March-1946.jpg|Hiroshima in March 1946, 7 months after the US atomic bombing of the city|thumbnail|400px]] The [[cold war]] replaced the [[fear]] of World War II as the [[USA]] and [[USSR]] engaged in an [[arms race]] to deveop ever more destructive arsenals of [[WMD]]s, particularly [[nuclear weapons]]. ===Nuclear arms race=== {{FA|Nuclear arms race}} After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the dramatic destructive power of [[nuclear weapons]] was clear to the world (if not the longer term destructive effects of radiation). The [[USSR]] quickly determined to acquire their own nuclear capability, as did the USA's wartime allies [[UK]] and [[France]]. ===Mind control=== {{FA|Mind control}} Starting in [[1947]], the [[US Navy]]'s [[Project CHATTER]] was the first of a set of attempts at [[mind control]]. One part of the projects was about developing ways to force people to disclose secrets, another was about the creation of 'programming' to subject people to another's will, for example, to carry out [[assassinations]]. Connections to this project have appeared in subsequent [[deep event]]s such as the [[assassination of Robert Kennedy]]. {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{reflist}} cc7whgoyizq9jzldvuug8m7maxiip5w