1940
  • Franklin Roosevelt President
  • Henry Wallace Vice President
  • Churchill is Prime Minister
  • Gualle leads the Free French
  • Battle of Britian starts
  • 1st Peacetime draft in effect
  • Japans Diplomatic code cracked
  • Germany defeats France
  • Charlie Chaplin popular
  • RH factor in blood discovered
  • First Blood Bank opens
  • 40 hr. work weeks in effect
  • M&M's are made for GIs
  • Jeep was introduced
  • Color TV demonstrated
  • 1st Turnpike opens
  • Bebop was introduced
  • Disney's Fantasia is released
  • Cave art found in France
  • Cincinnati Reds wins World Series
  • US population 131,669,275

    1941
  • Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
  • US in World War II
  • Food Rationing taking toll
  • Hitler invades the USSR
  • Bismark sinks
  • Atlantic Charter agreed on
  • Sad Sack appears in papers
  • Plutonium is isolated
  • Aerosol cans invented
  • Cherrios is introduced
  • Diesel Locomotives in service
  • Greta Garbo retires
  • Mt. Rushmore completed
  • NY Yankees win World Series


    1942
  • 1st T-Shirts manufactured
  • Frank Sanatra break record
  • Battle of Guadalcanal started
  • Casablanca hits movie screens
  • 26 Nations sign Declaration
  • Japan attacks Singapore
  • The Battle of Midway
  • Glen Miller Band most popular
  • WAFs & WAVES established
  • US Troops invade S. Africa
  • Victory Gardens are cultivated
  • Last car off line till end of war
  • White Christmas released
  • Chaattanooga Choo Choo #1 song
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy debutes
  • St. Louis Cardinals win series
  • Day Light Savings introduced

    1943
  • The Pentagon is completed
  • ABC is founded
  • Musical Oklahoma popular
  • Jitterbug is the craze
  • Helmets worn in Football
  • St. Louis Cardinals win series
  • Betty Grable pin-up poster craze
  • Kidney dialysis machine invented

    1944
  • Roosvelt President 4th time
  • Harry Truman Vice President
  • GI Bill of Rights passed
  • DDT used for lice
  • Digital computer built
  • DNA is isolated
  • Iceland becomes a republic
  • D-Day landing in Normandy
  • Paris is liberated
  • Ozzie & Harriet debut
  • Padded shoulders are the craze
  • St. Louis Cardinal win series

    1945
  • Big Three Conference occurs
  • Franklin Roosevelt dies
  • Truman sworn in as President
  • Germany Surrenders
  • White Sand NM has 1st Atomic test
  • US drops Atomic Bomb on Japan
  • WW II death toll 55,000,000
  • Pippi Longstocking introduced
  • Tito becames leader of Yugoslavia
  • Mussolini is killed
  • French De Gaulle elected President
  • Penicillin is marketed
  • Water Fluoridaion introduced
  • CARE is founded
  • Detroit Tigers win World Series
  • American Football League organized
  • Slinky introduced


  • 1946
  • Bikini introduced in Paris
  • Timex is introduced
  • Spocks publishes baby book
  • UN has first session
  • Atomic Energy Commission formed
  • Cold War begins
  • Indian Claims Commission formed
  • Iron Curtain coined by Churchill
  • It's a Wonderful Life released
  • Tide hits markets
  • St. Louis Cardinals win series
  • Golfer Berg wins Woman's US Open
  • The Birth rate soars
  • Vespa scooters marketed
  • Philippines gain Independence
  • Heath Row Airport opens
  • Peron President of Argentina


    1947
  • Financial aid offered to Europe
  • Priness Elizabeth marries
  • Instant Camera was developed
  • CIA was formed
  • UFO crash in New Mexico
  • Nuremberg Trails begin
  • Dead Sea Scrolls found
  • Jackie Robinson joins major league
  • Al Capone dies
  • Diary of Anne Frank published
  • Ford Foundation is established
  • 1st transistor developed
  • AJAX is introduced
  • Polaroid Land Camera debutes
  • India becomes a Nations
  • Pakistan becomes a Nation
  • Yeager breaks sound barrier
  • World Series broadcasted
  • Howdy Doody hits the air
  • NY Yankees win World Series

    1948
  • Harry Truman President
  • Alben Barkley Vice President
  • Gandhi assassinated
  • Communists take Eastern Europe
  • Selective Service becomes law
  • Human Rights list drawn up
  • Mt. Palomar Telescope dedicated
  • Long playing records introduced
  • Israel was proclaimed
  • Armed Forces intergraded
  • Dial deodorant soap introduced
  • First McDonald's opens
  • Paperback books are popular
  • Milton Berle debutes
  • Kukla, Fran and Ollie on screen
  • Scrabble game popular
  • Cleveland Indians win series
  • Flash cameras introduced
  • Hogan wins US Open
  • Pogo debuts


    1949
  • NATO is established
  • China is a Communist republic
  • Mao, Chairman Peoples Republic
  • Silly Putty is introduced
  • NBA is formed
  • French Citroen car introduced
  • Coppi wins Tour de France
  • NY Yankees win World Series


  • Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 and since then has been establishing himself as the next leader of the world. He blamed Trade Unions, Communists and all Jews for Germany's humilating in the Great War. He removed the Jewish rights and also defies the Treaty of Versailles. He started persecution of the Jews and occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria. In 1939 he invades Poland and World War II is feared. In 1940 Belguim surrendered to Germany as did France when the Germans launched an attack on both countries. Hilter wanted to invade Britian but called it off in September of 1940. In 1941 Hitler invades the USSR bringing them into the War. He also stormed Greece and took the islands. In 1942 the allies started pushing back the Germans. In 1942 England took El Alamein, the Soviets won the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Americans start bombing raids on German factories. In 1944 the Landing in Normandy, (D-Day), Paris is liberated from the Germans, and on May 8th, 1945 the was in Europe is over. Hilter shot himself in Berlin the next day and the Red Army took over Berlin.


    Winston Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister on 13 May 1940. The King called on Churchill to unite all the parties into on government after a collapse. He has always spoke against Hilter.



    When France fell into German hands, General De Gualle escaped to England and with the support of the British government lead the "Free French". He declared, "Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not go out and it will not go out". In 1942 he changed the name of his resistance to the "Fighting French". These people specialized in sabotage, propaganda, and intelligence work. They worked secretly and with risk of arrest if detected. Paris was liberated in 1944 when the Resistance rose against the Germans and took their city's stongpoints.




    Pearl Habor Attack by Japanese

    On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese lead by Chuichi Nagumo, attacked Pearl Habor by surprise, where 19 warships are out of commission and 4 battleships are sunk, 188 aircraft are destroyed, 159 damaged and 2,403 people were killed. The Japanese also attack US possessions, Guam, Philippines and the Marianas Islands. Japan has been trying to invade China since 1937 and has wanted to take over all of Southeast Asia. President Roosevelt declares war on Japan on December 8th at 5:10 p.m., and addressing the nation wearing a black arm band in memory of those that parished. The United States has now been pulled into World War II.


    On the 1st of November 1941, Mount Rushmore unveiled the completion of the Presidents. Carved out in the BlackHills Mountains in South Dakota the Presidents stand 60 feet high. On the side of the mountain you will find the busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Gutzon Borglum took 15 years to almost complete this project, but died in the spring of 41 and his son Lincoln completed the dream.


    Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were the leading figures in Jazz and started the BeBop craze. The name is derived from the sound of the music and call it modern jazz.




    Japan surrenders unconditionally after the US drops the Atom bombs on Hiroshima killing 78,000 and wiping out the city and on Nagasaki. Nagasaki was bombed only because the other city was under clouds at the time. A third bomb was to be dropped by because of the the Japanese were going to surrender, and the President didn't want to kill anymore people.

    The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 near the Dead Sea in Palestine. These leather and papyrus scrolls belonged to the Essenes, a Jewish religious sect that was based near Qumran from about 150 B.C. to A.D. 68 and contain rules for the Essene Community and versions of books from the Old Testament of the Bible.

    Eleanor Roosevelt help draw up the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" for the General Assemble of the United Nations to review. One 10 December, 1948 the General Assemble agreed a list of individual rights should be accepted all over the world. In the Declaration all people should have the rights to life and freedom, to equal protection under the law, and to own property. They should be allowed to meet peacefully with others, to express opinions freely, follow a religion, has a right to work, to receive equal pay for equal work, and to join trade unions. All countries in the United Nations voted to approve the declaration with the exception to those countries dominated by the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.

    President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945 and Harry S. Truman was sworn into the Office of the President. During the next Presidential election in 1948, Truman's apponent Thomas Dewey was suppose to win by a landslide, but many newspapers were embarrassed at their headlines the next morning, when Truman was still the President of the United States. Truman laughed as he held up the Chicago Daily Tribune with the headlines reading, "Dewey Defeats Truman".







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