1940 - Population
Population
Seven out of 10 U.S. blacks still live in the 11 states of the old Confederacy, down from eight out of 10 in 1910 (see 1960).
Birth control receives public endorsement from Eleanor Roosevelt.
The world's population reaches 2.3 billion, up from nearly 2 million in 1930, with roughly 500 million in China. Eighty percent of the world still lives in agricultural villages.
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France : in World War II|Belgium : in World War II|Netherlands : in World War II|Luxembourg : in World War II|Denmark : in World War II|Norway : in World War II|Romania : in World War II|Germany : in World War II|Britain : in World War II|Nazis|Hitler, Adolf|World War II|Borah, William E.|Butler, Smedley Darlington|Daladier, Edouard|Reynaud, Paul|Buckmaster, Maurice|Atkins, Vera|Denmark : in World War II|Norway : in World War II|Finland : and USSR|Soviet Union : and Finland|Hambro, Carl Joachim|Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von|Raeder, Erich|Quisling, Vidkun|Rosenberg, Alfred|Yugoslavia : in World War II|Croatia|Navy, Royal : in World War II|Lonsdale, Rupert B.|Blitzkrieg|Guderian, Heinz W.|Guderian, Heinz|Rommel, Erwin|Manstein, Erich von|Hart, Basil H. L.|Rotterdam|Wilhelmina I|Gamelin, Maurice|Belgium : in World War II|Maginot Line|Weygand, Maxime|Netherlands : in World War II|France : in World War II|World War II|Churchill, Winston|Chamberlain, Neville|Halifax, Edward F.L. Wood, 1st earl of|George VI of Britain|Mosley, Sir Oswald|Mitford, Diana|Hitler, Adolph|Goebbels, Joseph|Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Britain|Leeb, Wilhelm R. von|Maginot Line|Belgium : in World War II|Dunkirk : in World War II|Alexander, Harold R.L.G.|Churchill, Winston|Stephenson, Sir Wm. S.|World War II|Germany : in World War II|France : in World War II|Britain : in World War II|Alexander, Gen. Harold R.L.G.|Dunkirk : in World War II|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Italy : in World War II|Italy : and France|France : and Italy|Italy : and Britain|Britain : and Italy|Paris : in World War II|Maginot Line|Reynaud, Paul|Pétain, Henri|Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de|Vichy|Timoshenko, Semyon K.|Suomossalmi, Battle of|Finland : and USSR|Hambro, Carl Joachim|Norway : in World War II|Estonia : and USSR|Latvia : and USSR|Soviet Union : and Lithuania|Lithuania : and USSR|Soviet Union : and Estonia|Soviet Union : and Latvia|Romania : in World War II|Romania : and USSR|Soviet Union : and Romania|Carol II of Romania|Romania|Moldava|Balbo, Italo|Navy, Royal : in World War II|Somerville, Admiral Sir James|Navy, Royal : at Oran|Cunningham, Andrew B.|de Gaulle, Charles|Italy : in World War II|Wavell, Archibald|Wilson, Henry Maitland|Britain : in World War II|DeWolf, Harry|RAF|Churchill, Winston|Churchill, Winston|Tremenheere, Hugh C.T.|Spitfire|London : in World War II|Goering, Hermann|Doenitz, Karl|Stephenson, William S.|Spitfire|George VI of Britain|Hitler, Adolf|Hurricane plane|Rolls-Royce : aircraft engines|Kaiser, Henry J.|Germany : and Italy|Germany : and Japan|Italy : and Germany|Japan : and Germany|Japan : and Italy|Italy : and Japan|Hitler, Adolf|Matsuoka, Yosuke|Mussolini, Benito|Romania : and Germany|Germany : and Romania|Romania : oil in|North American Aviation|Kindelberger, J.H. "Dutch|Spitfire|MIG fighter plane|Greece : and Italy|Greece : and Britain|Britain : and Greece|Italy : and Greece|Italy : and Britain|Britain : and Italy|Italy : in World War II|Britain : in World War II|Cunningham, Andrew B.|Navy, Royal : in World War II|Azaña y Díaz, Manuel|Chamberlain, Neville|Craig, James|Coventry|Romania : in World War II|Hungary : in World War II|George Cross|George VI of Britain|Sidi Barrani, Battle of|Italy : in World War II|Britain : in World War II|Wavell, Archibald|Graziani, Rodolfo|Konoye, Fumimaro|Indochina : in World War II|Japan : and China|China : and Japan|Zero fighter plane|Japan : biological weapons and|Decoux, Jean|France : and Indochina|Vietnam : France and|France : and Vietnam|Chau, Phan Boi|Burma : in World War II|Burma Road|Thailand : and Laos|Thailand : and Cambodia|Phibunsongkhram, Luang|Japan : and Thailand|Thailand : and Japan|India : Muslim League in|Navy : U.S.|United States : in World War II|Davis, Benjamin O., Sr.|Buchan, John|Trotsky, Leon|Mexico|Avila Camacho, Manuel|Alien Acts, U.S.|Paraguay|Puerto Rico|Muñoz Marín, Luis|Willkie, Wendell L.|Luce, Clare Boothe|Taft, Robert|Vandenberg, Arthur|Dewey, Thomas E.|Kennedy, Joseph P.|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Arnall, Ellis G.|Farley, James A.|Wallace, Henry A.|Hoover, Herbert C.|Roosevelt, Franklin D. : fireside chats of|Nazis|Holocaust|Himmler, Heinrich|Auschwitz|Roms (gypsies)|Katyn Forest Massacre|Poland : in World War II|Sachs, Nelly, German-born Swedish poet-novelist-playwright|Lagerlöf, Selma, Swedish novelist|Fry, Varian M.|Roosevelt, Eleanor|Hadamard, Jacques|Arendt, Hannah|Heiden, Konrad|Feuchtwanger, Lion|Mann, Heinrich|Chagall, Marc|Ernst, Max|Lam, Wilfredo|Lipchitz, Jacques|Landowska, Wanda|Mendes, Aristedes de Sousa|Salazar, Antonio|Long, Breckinridge|Sugihara, Chiune|Holocaust|Germany : euthanasia in|Streicher, Julius|concentration camps : Maidanek|Maidanek concentration camp|Alinsky, Saul|Roosevelt, Franklin D.|Social Security|United States : economy of|United States : income tax in|income tax, U.S.|United States : inflation in|Gross National Product (GNP)|Livermore, Jesse L.|Sherry-Netherland Hotel|Tiffany & Co.|air conditioning : store|coal : digging machine|Joy Manufacturing|steamship : Cunard, (Queen Elizabeth)|Boeing : 307-B|Jeep|Herrington, A.W.S.|Ford Motor Company|Chrysler, Walter F.|Michelin, Edouard|Stanley, Freelan|Modjeski, Ralph|Tacoma Narrows Bridge|Tacoma-Narrows bridge|Ammann, Othmar H.|Kármán, Theodore von|Pennsylvania : Turnpike|Los Angeles : freeways in|United States : highways in|tunnels : Queens-Midtown|Queens-Midtown Tunnel|automobiles|Isaacs, Stanley M.|New York : Els in|trolley cars : U.S.|Chevrolet motorcar|Pontiac motorcar|Studebaker motorcar|Nash motorcar|Packard motorcar|Shannon, Claude|computers : Shannon and|Goodrich, B.F. : synthetic rubber and|rubber : synthetic|rubber : synthetic|rubber : in World War II|Sulman, Henry L.|Thompson, John Taliaferro|Hadfield, Robert A.|uranium : and atomic energy|Peierls, Rudolph E.|McMillan, Edwin M.|Abelson, Philip|plutonium|microscope : electron|Delbrück, Max|Hershey, A.D.|biology : molecular|Lascaux caves|archaeology : Dörpfeld and|Dörpfeld, Wilhelm|Dubois, Eugène|Kamen, Martin D.|biochemistry|archaeology|Bosch, Carl|Harden, Arthur|Thomson, Joseph John|Levene, Phoebus A.T.|Kayser, Heinrich|penicillin|antibiotics : penicillin|sulfa drugs|Blue Cross|United States : health care in|blood : transfusion|Landsteiner, Karl|Rockefeller Institute|Cohn, Edwin|Tiselius, Arne|chemistry : Tiselius and|Fantus, Bernard M.|blood : transfusion|Drew, Charles R.|Rous, Peyton|sprue, nontropical|Wagner-Jauregg, Julius|Grenfell, Sir Wilfred|Adler, Cyrus|Loisy, Alfred Firmin|AT&T|Branly, Edouard|Lodge, Oliver J.|Rabi, I.I.|Alvarez, Luis W.|DuBridge, Lee|radar|tape recorder|radio (wireless) : FM|Zenith|Radio Corp. of America (RCA) : and television|television : RCA and|Goldmark, Peter|television : color|Philco|Brazil : newspapers in|Vargas, Getulio|Knight, John S.|Detroit Free Press|In fact|Seldes, George|Field, Marshall, III|Seuss, Dr.|Guggenheim : family|Patterson, Alicia|Messick, Dale|comic books|Fisher, Ham|comic strips : "Joe Palooka|Fawcett, Wilford H.|Abbott, Robert S.|Harmsworth, Harold S.|Wilson, Edmund|Kohn, Hans|Lazarsfeld, Paul F.|Lewis, Bernard|Stark, Freya|Boas, Franz|anthropology|Hooton, Earnest A.|Beach, Sylvia|Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens|Benjamin, Walter|Mayo, Katherine|The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (n) : |McCullers, Carson|The Ox-Bow Incident (n)|Clark, Walter van Tilburg|For Whom the Bell Tolls (n)|Hemingway, Thomas|You Can't Go Home Again (n)|Wolfe, Thomas|The Hamlet (n)|Faulkner, William|Native Son (n)|Wright, Richard|My Name is Aram (s)|Saroyan, William|The Power and the Glory (n)|Greene, Graham|Snow, C.P.|de Hartog, Jan|Kallocain (n)|Boye, Karin|The Pool of Vishnu (n)|Myers, L.H.|Walpole, Hugh|Powys, John Cowper|The Man Who Loved Children (n)|Stead, Christina|The Thibaults (n)|Martin du Gard, Roger|On a Darkling Plain (n)|Stegner, Wallace|O'Faolain, Sean|De Vries, Peter|Powell, Dawn|Hughes, Dorothy B.|Journey into Fear (n)|Ambler, Eric|Ten Little Niggers (n)|Christie, Agatha|And Then There Were None (n)|Ten Little Indians (n)|Oppenheim, E. Phillips|Benson, E.F.|Garland, Hamlin|Bulgakov, Mikhail|Heyward, DuBose|Fitzgerald, F. Scott|West, Nathanael|Eliot, T.S.|Bishop, John Peale|Williams, Oscar|Rexroth, Kenneth|Fearing, Kenneth|Vallejo, César|Seifert, Jaroslav|Elytis, Odysseus|Pound, Ezra|Miller, Alice Duer|Fontanne, Lynn|Markham, Edwin|Davies, William Henry|Horton Hatches the Egg (j)|Seuss, Dr.|Pat the Bunny (j)|Kunhardt, Dorothy|The Kid from Tomkinsville (j)|Tunis, John R.|Picasso, Pablo|Matisse, Henri|Kandinsky, Wassily|Beckmann, Max|Klee, Paul|Ernst, Max|Tamayo, Ruffino|Kahlo, Frida|O'Keeffe, Georgia|Neel, Alice|Gorky, Arshile|Hartley, Marsden|Vuillard, Jean Edouard|Calder, Alexander|Gill, Eric|Model, Lisette|Hine, Lewis W.|The Male Animal (p)|Thurber, James|Nugent, Elliott|Tierney, Gene|My Dear Children (p)|Barrymore, John|The Fifth Column (p)|Hemingway, Ernest|Ulric, Lenore|Cobb, Lee J.|Tone, Franchot|Strasberg, Lee|Denham, Reginald|Edney, Florence|Robson, Flora|Winwood, Estelle : Winwood|There Shall Be No Night (p)|Sherwood, Robert|Lunt, Alfred|Fontanne, Alfred|Greenstreet, Sydney|Whorf, Richard|Clift, Montgomery|Johnny Belinda (p)|Woodbury, Clare|George Washington Slept Here (p) : |Kaufman, George S.|Hart, Moss|Truex, Ernest|Dixon, Jean|Taliaferro, Mabel|Clark, Kendall|Old Acquaintance (p)|Van Druten, John|Cowl, Jane|Smith, Kent|Wood, Peggy|My Sister Eileen (p)|Fields, Joseph A.|Booth, Shirley|Sayers, Jo Ann|Carnovsky, Morris|Rice, Elmer|Field, Betty|Malden, Karl|Marlowe, Hugh|Campbell, Mrs. Patrick|Hasenclever, Walter|Ice Capades|Cromwell, John|Abe Lincoln in Illinois (f)|Massey, Raymond|Lockhart, Gene|Gordon, Ruth|Cline, Edward|The Bank Dick (f)|Fields, W.C.|Hitchcock, Alfred|Foreign Correspondent (f)|McCrea, Joel|Day, Laraine|Ford, John|The Grapes of Wrath (f)|Fonda, Henry|Hawks, Howard|His Girl Friday (f)|Russell, Rosalind|Bellamy, Ralph|Cukor, George|The Philadelphia Story (f)|Hepburn, Katharine|Grant, Cary|Stewart, James|Stewart, Donald Ogden|Leonard, Robert Z.|Pride and Prejudice (f)|Olivier, Laurence|Garson, Greer|Oliver, Edna May|O'Sullivan, Maureen|Curtiz, Michael|The Sea Hawk (f)|Flynn, Errol|Whelan, Tim|Powell, Michael|The Thief of Baghdad (f)|Sabu|Ingram, Rex|Duprez, June|Sturges, Preston|Christmas in July (f)|Powell, Dick|Demarest, William|Contraband (f)|Veidt, Conrad|Hobson, Valerie|Dieterle, William|Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (f)|Robinson, Edward G.|Wood, Sam|Kitty Foyle (f)|Rogers, Ginger|Cooper, Gladys|Bacon, Lloyd|O'Brien, Pat|Reagan, Ronald|Wyler, William|The Letter (f)|Davis, Bette|Marshall, Herbert|The Long Voyage Home (f)|Wayne, John|Mitchell, Thomas|Mamoulian, Rouben|The Mark of Zorro (f)|Power, Tyrone|Darnell, Linda|Borzage, Frank|The Mortal Storm (f)|Sullavan, Margaret|Young, Robert|Morgan, Frank|Vidor, King|Northwest Passage (f)|Tracy, Spencer|Our Town (f)|Holden, William|Scott, Martha|Craven, Frank|Lubitsch, Ernst|The Shop Around the Corner (f)|Walsh, Raoul|They Drive by Night (f)|Raft, George|Bogart, Humphrey|Sheridan, Ann|Lupino, Ida|Keighley, William|Torrid Zone (f)|Cagney, James|LeRoy, Mervyn|Waterloo Bridge (f)|Leigh, Vivien|Taylor, Robert|The Westerner (f)|Cooper, Gary|Brennan, Walter|Turpin, Ben|Mix, Tom|The Road to Happiness (r)|Young Dr. Malone (r)|Truth or Consequences (r)|Edwards, Ralph|Disney, Walt|Pinocchio (h)|Washington, Ned|"When You Wish Upon a Star|Two for the Show (m)|Arden, Eve|Hutton, Betty|Wynn, Keenan|Drake, Alfred|"How High the Moon|Higher and Higher (m)|Haley, Jack|Rodgers, Richard|Hart, Lorenz|"It Never Entered My Mind|Elliott, Madge|Gingold, Hermione|Ustinov, Peter|Louisiana Purchase (m)|Gaxton, William|Moore, Victor|Zorina, Vera|Bordoni, Irene|Berlin, Irving|"It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow|Cabin in the Sky (m)|Waters, Ethel|Duncan, Todd|Ingram, Rex|Johnson, J. Rosamond|Latouche, John|"Taking a Chance on Love|Panama Hattie (m)|Merman, Ethel|Treacher, Arthur|Porter, Cole|"Let's Be Buddies|Pal Joey (m)|Kelly, Gene|Segal, Vivienne|Havoc, June|O'Hara, John|"Bewitched|"I Could Write a Book|"Zip|Britten, Benjamin|Hindemith, Paul|Bartók, Bela|Villa-Lobos, Heitor|Schoenberg, Arnold|Izaht (o)|Albanese, Licia|Villa-Lobos, Heitor|Steber, Eleanor|Tetrazzini, Luisa|Gatti-Casazza, Giulio|Farrell, Eileen|The Metropolitan Opera of the Air (r)|Pinza, Ezio|Albanese, Licia|Texaco|Davis, Jimmie|"The Last Time I Saw Paris|Kern, Jerome|Hammerstein, Oscar : II|"Bless 'em All|"Strange Fruit|"Tuxedo Junction|"Do I Worry?|"Frenesi|"Imagination|Van Heusen, Jimmy|Burke, Johnny|"You're the One (For Me)|McHugh, Jimmy|Mercer, Johnny|"When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano|"Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar|Raye, Don|"How Did He (She) Look|Shelley, Gladys|"I Hear a Rhapsody|"Blueberry Hill|"San Antonio Rose|"Back in the Saddle Again|Autry, Gene|Holiday, Billie, U.S. jazz singer|Andrews Sisters|Little Esther|Pearl, Minnie|Grand Ole Opry|Benton, William|Thornhill, Claude|Spivak, Charlie|Kemp, Hal|pole-vault|Little, Lawson|McNeil, Donald|Marble, Alice|Luckman, Sid|nylon|du Pont, E.I. : nylon and|rayon|cotton : textiles|Behrens, Peter|house finch|Pough, Richard|Lake Superior : Isle Royale Natl. Park in|Tanganyika : Serengeti Park in|earthquakes : Romania|Romania : earthquakes in|shad : New York-New Jersey catch of|shrimp : Gulf Coast brown|wheat : U.S. export of|Argentina : grain exports of|Denmark : in World War II|Vavilov, Nikolai|Lysenko, T.D.|Soviet Union : agriculture in|cattle : Santa Gertrudis|Texas : King Ranch in|King Ranch|Howard, Sir Albert|Gandhi, Mohandas K.|soybeans : U.S. production of|soybeans : U.S. cultivation of|Staley, A.E.|United States : agriculture in|Britain : Ministry of Food in, World War II|butter : rationing of, Britain, World War II|sugar : rationing, Britain, World War II|bacon : rationing, Britain, World War II|meat : rationing, Britain, World War II|cheese : rationing, Britain, World War II|jam : rationing, Britain, World War II|tea : rationing, Britain, World War II|World War II|fish : controls on, Britain, World War II|France : World War II and|France : black markets in, World War II|bread : rationing of, France, World War II|Britain : Ministry of Food in, World War II|eggs : dried, World War II|milk : dried, World War II|milk : British consumption of|cheese : British consumption of|potatoes : British consumption of|carrots : British consumption of|nutrition : Vigneaud and|Vigneaud, Vincent du|biotin|food : frozen|A&P : cellophane-wrapped meat and|cellophane : meat retailing and|freeze-dried foods|controlled atmosphere (CA) storage|apples : controlled-atmosphere storage and|Owens-Illinois Glass|Dean Foods|milk : cartons|coffee : U.S. imports of|Beard, James|hamburger : McDonald's|Dairy Queen fast-food chain|ice cream : soft, Dairy Queen|contraception : Roosevelt, Eleanor, and|Roosevelt, Roosevelt|world, population of
