Culture & IdeasThe 1940s

Culture & Ideas in the 1940s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1940s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1940 to 1945. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
1940
Latest
1945
Europe
1
North America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. North America

    Trinidad and Tobago

    Birth of the steelpan

    Musicians in Port of Spain fashioned the steelpan from oil drums after colonial bans on African drumming — the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th century and now the national instrument.

    Era: A modern energy nation

    Sources: Steelband · National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Trinidad and Tobago

  2. Europe

    North Macedonia

    Socialist Republic of Macedonia and the codified language

    A People's (later Socialist) Republic of Macedonia was constituted as one of Yugoslavia's six republics, and a standard Macedonian literary language was codified for the first time.

    Era: Partition, 'Vardar Macedonia' and the Yugoslav Republic

    Sources: North Macedonia: History (Ancient, Ottoman, Yugoslav) · Encyclopaedia Britannica